I'm familiar with how desirable Camco drums can be, but by no means an expert on them! I think this seller does a good job in reporting the flaws. He's done a good job with those custom blanking plates to hide the Slingerland mounts, too!

Seems like the majority of Camco kits I see tend to have 20" bass drums, so this one with a 22" is a good find. The addition of the 14" rack tom is nice, too!

The price might be fair, given the extra holes, but let's see what others more in the know have to say.

-Mark

Thanks for your reply!

and when it rains it pours, during my planning go see the kit, this one was sent to me.

https://harrisburg.craigslist.org/msg/6802912119.html

All I can say is they do make reproduction t-rods for the bass drum, other parts a re hard to find and be terribly expensive. 1300 for the walnut kit seems reasonable to me (I am no expert) even with the extra holes. I just know that Camco drums bring big bucks. If it were me I would buy the walnut kit.

I don't understand the facination with Camco drums, I think it's more hype than anything else and the dw association. I don't recall any really big name drummers playing Camco other than Denise Wilson of the Beach Boys.

I'm with you Johnnyringo!

the quality of build , edges and lack of mass production of the Camco's I think make them valuable, also the unique sound.

Notable players: Jim Gordan (John Lennon, George Harrison, Eric Clapton Zappa,....)

Jeff Porcaro, Doug Clifford (CCR), Whitey Glan (Alice Cooper), Bob Henrit (Argent),

Mike Botts (Bread), Dave Mattacks, Many Jazz drummers also.

It's too bad the Natural kit has so many missing parts, nice looking kit.

Walnut is nice also and a fair price considering.

Wayne

Were they built better than Rogers from the same era? Did they introduce unique hardware like Rogers? I don't think so. Somewhere along the lines it got started that Camco drums were the best and the unavailability of them gave them that mystic. Soon drummers were paying crazy money for something that came to fame through over blown hype. Sorta like the dw fascination these days.

Camco was associated with Rogers in the 50's and 60's.

The catalogs had Camco hardware in them.

In my opinion I do think Camco were built better in the same era.

I have a late 50's Rogers which I think the shells were nice but hardware was not (B&B lugs),of course they came out with the Swivo hardware that was light years ahead of the rest. Also a lot of the Camco sets came with swivo hardware.

Rogers was a great drum company. Camco did have unique hardware.(see Pic)

I am a Ludwig guy and have several brands of drums and as most know they all have there ups and downs. But I can say Camco and Walberg & Auge are 2 of the best built drums I have owned.

I have never owned a DW but I hear they are well built, but there is also a lot of them out there. Not quite the same.

I know everyone has there own opinion and glad we do.

I hope the OP grabbed one of the Kits and he will see they will sing for days no matter what tuning you like.

Wayne

The Chanute Walnut Kit is a 6 ply Jasper shell. 4ply shells are only in the Oaklawn era of Camco.

I play Camco and I’ve owned Rogers. Are Camco better made than Rogers? No. But I definitely prefer the Camco sound to Rogers. It’s not hype, they are magical!