Mark,

Haven't seen or heard from Carl since the same Chicago show as yourself. Hopefully he's ok. I may have an email address here somewhere for him if you need it.

Hope your doin' ok buddy.

Dave

Thanks,Dave. I tried e-mailing him on several occasions but never heard from him.

Ditto to all of the above....Dr. Wenk is a plethora of knowledge, it's a shame that he isn't around, not criticizing him just disappointed that we can't access his vast knowledge of Slingerland.

Mike Curotto

He used to be a part of this forum and contributed articles on Slingerland. I wonder if the moderators know what became of Carl.

Hey Mark!

Well... kinda. I was scheduled to attend/display with David Anfuso at the 2010 Chicago Vintage Drum Show in the Slingerland drums tribute area. ( two of my Buddy Rich model snare drums were displayed in a re-creation of the ACTUAL page featuring those drums out of the Slingerland catalog ) Carl Wenk and I were both going to "work the booth" so to speak, and meet as we had been chatting numerous times via email. I ended up not being able to attend due to gig concerns that weekend, and as I recall... Greg Potter ended up with MY Slingerland shirt! Bastid! Anyway... in chatting with David after the show he mentiond that Carl was thinking about taking a "sabbatical" from all forum activity as he needed time to work on HIS Slingerland book, which as you can well imagine, will be ALL encompassing. Since then.. ( 3 years plus ) .. we have to assume that he did exactly that! He has been laying low with virtually no contact, and apparently... he might want it that way 'till he's ready to come on out again. All this said, it will be well worth the wait once he does return, and especially so if he has finished that Slingerland history!

Tommyp

Tommy thanks for the info. I've read most if not all the articles here Dr CJW wrote here. It was some of the very first vintage Slingerland material I came across getting back into it again a few years ago. That led me here. Will be looking for his new book. Also Tommy......hope you still are thinking about doing the same one day! ;)

Thanks, Tommy. That Slingerland display was fantastic and everyone I spoke to loved it. That's where I spent some time talking with Carl about his book. He had asked me if I would contribute some photos to it, but after several unanswered e-mail messages, I assumed he had simply vanished. I hope Carl is simply "laying low" and surfaces someday soon.