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Joseph Rogers - restoration

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Still waiting for custom made heads on the Jedson restoration, but this one's done.

This is a late 30's early 'Rogers' Daisy Brand 6 1/2 X 14 single ply with re-rings drum. I check out vintage drums for sale a lot on Ebay & other places & never see any available with these lugs. Also, I couldn't find a photo anywhere of this type drum, so this might be the only one to have been photographed. My interest in vintage drums is finding the less popular & unique drums & restoring them. Many or most of these would be not top of the line drums; this one is more of a utility drum.

The original finish on this was an ivory paint, which I stripped and repainted. All of the hardware is original, except the Speedway strainer, which I had fabricated by Adrian at ak-drums in Italy. The lugs, whick I only cleaned up an buffed, are pot metal. The hoops are steel & retain their pitts.

This was enjoyable to do - I like the 'basic'ness of this drum with it's crude looking lugs - definitely unique character.

BTW, it sounds really good - meaty with the 'vintage atriculate' dryness. But This one's not for gigging!

Posted on 18 years ago
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more pics . . .

Posted on 18 years ago
#2
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Awesome! Too nice for words, the pictures do all the talking!

Posted on 18 years ago
#3
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You are a true craftsman and do a wonderful job on the restorations.

The photography is the best!!

Hey, you should let me put together a section on my web site for your drums so people can see all of them in one spot.

I can build a mini-web site on my server and do a feature for you and then maybe we can get more detail on each project.

It would be a good read and with that photography an added bonus.

Always with a link to the photo studio of course!

Let me know

David

[EMAIL="vsd@vintagesnaredrums.com"]vsd@vintagesnaredrums.com[/EMAIL]

Posted on 18 years ago
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David, thanks for the compliments! Wow, that's quite an offer! I'd be interested if you think it'd be a worthwhile project on your end. Let me know what you need & I can supply whatever it is. I have only a handful of restorations, and about 15 or so custom builds.

I will have another restoration to post in a week or so - just waiting on heads.

Posted on 18 years ago
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Actually I think it would be very interesting and I would say 50% of the questions coming into the web site (yes I still get tons of people not using the forum) are about restoration.

So really I think I have what I need already with this drum, we will have to go off the forum and I will need to fine tune the text and get some more info from you.

Let me set something up and I will email you a private link.

David

Posted on 18 years ago
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Well, I thought it would be cool for the other members to see how things happen from my perspective. So let's keep this going on the forum.

Here is what I would call a upper navigation top bar

David

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Posted on 18 years ago
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O.k. so I take that top bar and add it to a basic web site page.

I make the navigation clickable and create each page.

Basically it is done and I just need to add the remainder of the info.

for the 30's drum

David

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Posted on 18 years ago
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I call this the 1 second restoration

Click Here

David

Posted on 18 years ago
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I just added and sized the mini pictures and changed the background color on that page.

I also changed and cleaned up the text a little

Click Here

Now the basic frame work is in place and I can go and work on a few other little details

David

Posted on 18 years ago
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