I looked through some of the Gretsch catalogue scans online and can't find anything to match what is on this kit.
Is this some sort of sparkle finish that has degraded _ is it paint _ or what?
The closer I look at this it seems to be a painted finish _ question is _ is this something a previous owner had done _ or something possibly factory applied?
It looks non factory, have you removed any of the lugs to see what is underneath them?
A painted drum wont have a seam, a painted over wrap drum will, a wrap drum will as well !i Which does yours do ?
Does anything run inside that missing badge hole ?
Looks like speckled trunk paint. No way original. These have black interiors too, don't they?
Lot's of stripping there.
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I don't have them in hand yet _ just won them in auction and had some big reservations before pulling the trigger on them _ and did it in the last seconds.
I'm not too deep moneywise on the purchase.
Bass drum is complete hardware wise_ no badges or paper tags on any of the drums.
The 12" rack on the right seems correct _ but that 13" rack tom {on left} is very suspect.
Looks like speckled trunk paint. No way original. These have black interiors too, don't they?Lot's of stripping there.B
Yeah that's what I was thinking some sort of speckled paint like a granitone only in green.
The 12" tom the pne I'm more certain about has a black interior. The bass drum looks to have the standard silver sealer. The 13" rack tom has a grey interior with vertical grain running edge to edge _ so that's almost certainly asian.
Just looked up "trunk paint" at the dupilcolor website _ and they have a "black and aqua" listed {but no color swatch} so I think you may be right on the money with that suggestion.
Now I don`t know how many different lugs Grestch made but I think I see four different kinds, the BD has it`s, the smaller tom has it`s which the crimp is more curved than the BD, and the larger one has two different top and bottom lugs with different sized .."toes" ...one`s on top look different length..."toes"... and look where the larger tom mount seems located at the extreme bottom of the drum !i
Now I don`t know how many different lugs Grestch made but I think I see four different kinds, the BD has it`s, the smaller tom has it`s which the crimp is more curved than the BD, and the larger one has two different top and bottom lugs with different sized .."toes" ...one`s on top look different length..."toes"... and look where the larger tom mount seems located at the extreme bottom of the drum !i
Yeah thats why I had reservations about bidding it. A lot of fairly iffy stuff.
The bass drum has a pratt muffler installed _ with the correct claws and torpedo style tension rods _ so I'm fairly certain that that at least is legit.
But overall the "drum kit" is a mess _ grimy, dirty, rusty _ and apparently painted with "trunk paint".
I'll try to upload some more images.
Thanks All
More Pics. Back side player's view.
