There's pics of mine here:

http://www.vintagedrumforum.com/showthread.php?p=40470#post40470

I bought some aluminum at the hardware store. It was probably 1/8"x6" by 6 ft long. You only need a short bit of it. I curved this around something big and then cut out the section that fit my drum's diameter. I glued some automotive underlayment to the inside, which I wouldn't do next time - small rubber washers like they use in faucets would muffle the drum shell less and look better.

I mounted a Ludwig bracket to it. Then (gulp - you have to understand that this drum was cracked and kinda far gone, who isn't?) I drilled two holes in it and attached the gizmo to the drum with those long type of "butterfly" bolts that are spring loaded to spread open in a hole. They are normally used with drywall to hang pics and stuff. Rocket science.

I got a Ludwig cowbell post and after getting it as hot as I could with a heat gun, with it in a vise, bent it a bit.

No I don't feel 100% great about it, there is for sure an aesthetically cooler way. The aluminum shows too much, it requires drilling (so do the ones they sold way back when) and the Ludwig tom mount is... er... a few decades off as is the cowbell post.

On the + side: it's small, you don't screw up the bass drum except the hoop a bit, requires no wrenches and it's worked real well.

There's currently one being offered on e-Bay. It's Item #160367620048.

I was looking at that one too - how does it attach to the drum?

Ya but that one is gonna be mine...;D

LOL!

The mount assembly itself clamps onto the bass drum shell. As far as the tom, the ring on the chinese tom attaches to the mount via the hook on the mount assembly. The tom is then seated onto the semi-circular metal piece on the mount.

I've got a mount that came with a Chinese Tom from a 1920s Leedy kit I purchased many years ago. I've since sold all my Chinese Toms, so the mount will probably be the next thing to go. We'll see how it plays out.

[COLOR="DarkRed"]Thanks for the pic, MastroSnare...'cuz I had no idea what the hell a china tom even wuz......:confused:[/COLOR]

Attached are a few pics of my Leedy Chinese Tom mount.

OldSchool - Thanks those are great pics! The holders I'd seen before like in the first Ludwig catalogs were different - a simple post that screwed to the drum.

I would love to hear some stuff about these drums... here's what I've deduced:

I can imagine that there were a lot of guys in military in wars, like the Civil War, and WWI, that were in drum corp, and when they came home to the farm, all of a sudden it was just them and a trumpet player miles from everybody. My guess is that's what spawned the bass drum pedal. That and advances in machinery. There were probably people that hated it because it replaced a guy just like MIDI did.

So the drum companies started selling their snare drums, and marching bass drums with pedals and hocus pocus it's a drumset. But they didn't think drumset and it was more a contraption. I've heard that that's where the term "traps" came from, but it could mean "trappings", who knows. The drum companies sold the tom toms they imported from China used in Chinese Lion Dance rituals, the same dances they use swish cymbals in.

It wasn't later that the drum companies started making actual "sets" with toms that had matching finishes.

I've never read this, it's what I've gathered and deduced, I would love to hear where I'm inaccurate because that's when you learn.

The basement of my trap case holds my Supra, kick pedal, cowbell/woodblock, stool top, 22" swish in the side cymbal slot, and China tom:

[IMG]http://i415.photobucket.com/albums/pp231/kaaawa2000/TRAPCASELOADED.jpg[/IMG]

Since they're all Gretsch and Ludwig Walberg types, the tray holds the hihat stand, snare stand, stool and 3 cymbal stands and it's nowhere near full:

[IMG]http://i415.photobucket.com/albums/pp231/kaaawa2000/TRAY.jpg[/IMG]

For small gigs I've taken just the trap case and a bass drum. Back in the 70's I had all the Tama Titan stuff with the booms coming in.

I use a leather cymbal bag to make the trap case lighter and also I'm paranoid so I keep my cymbals next to me in the car - I've seen 2 cars go up in flames (and they were both VW's!).