I just had the edges on my mid 70's Slingy redone. 13, 16, 20 sizes. They refused to tune! The BD had been converted to a two head from the original single head so there was no front edge. I had the work done by Bernie Stone at Stone Custom Drums in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Excellent work, and FAST. Highly recommended!!
Greg
I have never seen a factory single head BD by any drum maker !! I`m sure that someone could point me to that ad or cat. !!
http://www.vintagedrumguide.com/slingerland_drumsets.html
Check out the 70's kits. Mine had the silver lining but sometime in it's life my bass had a front head put on. But no edge cut! Had to replace the mismatched front lugs, repaint hoops, clean and polish of course. Now it's a heluva players kit.
All the edges were rough from the factory, uneven and very sharp. Just a single 45 to the outside edge of the shell. Not good.
First time for me !!
I noticed the changes along the way with it, like re-locateing the spurs after the poor placement in 70 !!
It had a finnished front ring, but I still know that thing shakes !!
You probably did the best thing for that BD !!
I found it odd they pictured it sitting on the floor like that !!
