I see what happens when I don't check out the forum for a while. I missed the discussion on all these beautiful kits. I use my sivertones to gig with, and I will sing the praises of these kits to the last.

Drumdream-

I generally don't like the red and blue sparkles - but yours I like. It appears to lighten up in the light (I prefer light blue over medium or darker blue) and you have alot of lugs! Nice 8 lug BD and FT......and I see you also have a MIJ stencil "Speed Pedal" BD pedal - and the advanced model with double springs! I have one of those as well, but with the single spring - and all those fancy adjustments - which don't seem to be adjustments at all! It is a crappy pedal that I decide to keep so that I can run an all MIJ stencil if I want to.

Regarding this thread - yours is another example of what we are saying on here, where it is slightly angled and is mounted slightly off-center, just like my Dixie. It appears that the OP has one of those on his new find - mounted in holes that were meant for straight-up center piece. Not right, but of course it works and keeps him up and running with his beautiful kit! That will be an easy thing for him to swap out - not hard to find those and not hard to unload one either (of either type).

John

[QUOTE=Drummerjohn333;225913]Drumdream-

I generally don't like the red and blue sparkles - but yours I like. It appears to lighten up in the light (I prefer light blue over medium or darker blue) and you have alot of lugs! Nice 8 lug BD and FT......and I see you also have a MIJ stencil "Speed Pedal" BD pedal - and the advanced model with double springs!"

John

It seems like all the mij kits sold around here were all red or blue Sparkle. An mij kit with a nice pearl or ripple wrap doesn't show up around here very often. I was lucky to find my yamahas with the red Ripple. As far as the pedal, yes, I actually use the pedal, but gig with a pearl single eliminator. The kit came complete with pedal, matching hihat stand, bass drum cymbal L-arm, cowbell and wood block mounted on a stand. All original with the kit.

Sometimes Ebay might be a good option for you, though the shipping cost would make it a bit more costly for ya.

Re: the hardware - you are fortunate to have the arm to mount off the BD, as that is a common part missing on all these MIJs. I was blessed enough to find an MIJ deal that included 2 different types of those arms, so now I am covered with whatever MIJ cymbal mounting my BD of choice calls for, with the exception of the Majestic, which I understand is an altogether different beast.

Also, I would recommend that you collect matching MIJ hardware for the entire kit - clean up that MIJ hardware (flat based I assume) as it looks real nice with these MIJs when cleaned up, they ARE functional (though not as 'nice' as a modern stand), but mostly because they are VERY compact when you are moving a whole set of HW. I am in the process of cleaning some up during these holidays.

John