I kinda used the round blue badge style logo..looks cool

http://www.vintagedrumguide.com/images/snare_japanese/badges/zim_gar_large.jpg

I like that one Olimpass. Might look good to come at it with the Brooklyn N.Y. part of the badge too. Such a strange name to begin with. It would be interesting to know how they chose it.

This feels like a name that came from two last names kinda thing. Like Sabian is the first two letters of the three kid's names. Other than that it I'd have no idea on this one. I dig the 2nd & 3rd logo heads. The addition of the Brooklyn N.Y could be cool. Or maybe have the 3rd design just straight across, or vent hole in the middle of the head with the zim-gar on top like you have it and the Brooklyn N.Y part on the bottom. Sort of like the badge itself around the vent hole.

Hello Dan,

here is a partial "right click" of an article published in Not so modern drummer magazine

as to the name Zim Gar

The American Musical Instrument Corporation Brooklyn, New York owned by Larry Zimmerman imported these drums and other musical instruments from Japan in the 1960s. I figure the "Zim" is from his name and the Gar was short for Garfield,

Zimmerman's partner in the Garfield Zimmerman Music company, a music distributor business in NY.)

That is a real score Kenwood! As Paul Harvey used to say, "And now you (I) know the rest of the story."

PS - Is this by any chance the same outfit that had imported the LaBoz drums that were sold by Lechmere Sales in our area?

Hello again Dan,

I think the Laboz kits were non-star Hoshino built

Now the Zim Gar stuff was likely put out by all three

And I will explain why I think that is so

I bought a badly neglected and totally rusted black diamond pearl floor tom shell

The wooden shell was ruined the chrome was in terrible condition and the resonant side head hoop and rods were all missing

But It still had the early brass Zim Gar Brooklyn NY badge

The one remaining 16" hoop though it had moderate to severe chrome loss

was a very hard to find seven hole hoop

I needed that seven hole hoop to close in the resonant side on a tiger eye Pearl badged (red P)floor tom

I have never seen any other stencil maker aside from Pearl

that used a seven lugs per side set up on a drum

So that early Zim Gar shell In my mind was a Pearl made product

Now the majority of Zim Gar badged drums were Star made

the small blue badge ,the larger black and gold rectangular badge

and even the rarely seen small round silver badged stuff was all Star

Later once Star discontinued with the stencil drum building in order to become Tama

at least some of the demand for Zim Gar drums was then fulfilled by non-star Hoshino

This last bit of info I learned on a recent find of a partial kit

Obviously in every way a Hoshino build

with thin, foil, circular shaped, sticker type, badges with the Zim Gar name in a cursive script (pictured)