First; Great find! Those look so cool! Bill of billnvick has gobs of info about them, if needed.

Next, the little doghouse problem, I would suggest her favorite flowers followed by a nice dinner (out of course). I mean, this should not have gotten you into '***ellery' territory.

If you'd 'sworn off', what the heck are you doing on CL??? Nice score though, but I'd probably be in the doghouse too if I brought that load home. Suggest staying away from CL in future if you want to salvage the relationship... a hard habit to break.

Wow at 250.00 that was a Hell of a deal..The onlt thing i see missing is the T-rods and claws on one bass drum-{by the way i have them used and new old stock}-..By the badges i see this would date your set from 1974-76..These are great sounding drums...Oh as far as the Doghouse just tell your wife i got these for you iam going to show you how to play the drums..My little rock Godest...Mikey

hi i got the t-rods with it no hoop .or head what heads should i use?

I have and like both of these heads set-ups..Remo black dot's on tops of toms.On the bass drums white Assb. on front P/S on back..I also like P/S on tops of toms too same bass drum head set-up...Mikey

Yes, I'm drooling already... $250 is a great price for what I see, and I wouldn't have hesitated. And I've been fortunate enough to move enough stuff to stay out of the doghouse...

And, I've made the trip from Kansas to Ohio to buy drums before.

So, IF you have trouble getting OUT of that doghouse... :)

Like Mikey, I've also got a lot of parts from this era (well, I'm sure I don't have as MUCH as Mikey has! Not been at it nearly as long!) so if you need anything through your restore process, let me know.

Bill

cool thanks i need a hoop.and a 18 floor tom black.both bass drums are virgins so it's hard to get the toms to line up in a row.i think i might make a kiss set up and put kiss on the basses.

I've got a few 70s 22" Pearl hoops, but don't have any with black inlay.

The following eBay seller has a nice assortment of the original NOS Pearl-Remo heads available:

http://stores.ebay.com/MooreGuitars-org?_trksid=p4340.l2563

Also Precision Drum Co. has some Remo Clear/Black Dot CS heads in their "Specials" section right now...

http://www.precisiondrum.com/html/showroomspecials.html

They don't have the "Pearl" logo (like the ones above), but good prices. You have to scroll up to find them, as this link goes to the "showroom" part of the page.

These two places and their special prices won't cover all the sizes of heads you may need, but I've found Interstate Music

http://www.interstatemusic.com/search/Remo%20clear%20CS.aspx

to be about as reasonable on prices as anyone... and I've always been pleased with their shipping speed.

(No, no "kick-backs" from any of these guys; just sharing info!)

Good luck putting this baby together! An 18" FT will be hard to find. IF I were you, I wouldn't worry about finding a black one, buy whatever color you find... Pearl didn't glue down their wraps in the 70s, so the old comes off easy and new black wrap is easy to find.

Santa sure found you early this year! I'm still drooling!

Merry Christmas!

Bill

BTW -- not to argue with Mikey here, but I would put this set as being a late-70s model instead of mid-70s. I'm thinking that based upon the style of the BD spurs. The spurs with the "wing-nut" (Pearl Model 786 Spurs) didn't make their debut in the US Market catalogs until 1978 (as opposed to basically the same spurs but with a round knob of the early-to-mid 70s).

Here's a picture comparing the two: the one on the left is the "wing-nut" late-70s version, the one on the right is the older "knob" version...