Hey guys,
I picked up an old Stewart kit today....well most of one.
It's a pretty mixed bag...came with a couple cymbal stands and some other junk. We'll see what's salvageable soon.
Looks like my work is cut out for me here - fair amount of rust and pitting on the metal. Missing some parts, of course - hoops MIA, no bass spurs, probably others...
Perfect!!..You,ll never have to haul a practise kit around,at least if you dont want to.Set it up and leave it till next time and the price was spot on.
Ah, a nice pitted dusty mixed drum set! my first kit was a red sparkle and brown ripple stewart and star drum set.
good score! back in the day I would have flipped out for a price like that, nowadays even more so
I need a find like this!
or at least a floortom for the one I still have.
Looks like a kit from the 70`s according to the badge...Nice score!!
Cheers
Yup, later Stewart's, after Star dropped the stencil program to concentrate on making TAMA a success. Star made a massive amount of stencils for many distributors, St. Louis Music Supply being the biggest seller of stencils from the 60s into the early 70s. As Star exited the stencil market, Pearl took over many of the stencil lines and the decline of all the earlier stencil brands began in earnest. Pearl's new production facilities in Taiwan, and later in Korea, pumped out some pure garbage.
The Pearl factory in Japan began to see that TAMA was building a top of the line product and so began the competition for that top spot, which I think Yamaha ended up with. IMHO, Yamaha builds a far superior product to Pearl, and a bit better than TAMA.
I'd buy that for a dollar, (or $55). Looks like you got some good bits there - both inlayed hoops, speed pedal, bass mounted, l-arm cymbal stand, even a stool. Too bad about miss-matched floor tom, but with some work, it should make a nice little kit. Even though it's fairly common, I've always been a fan of the blue sparkle.
Nice score! I've always had a soft spot in my heart for Stewies. My first pair of drumsticks were stewarts, as was the bass drum on my first set, which was basically a jellybean set of various MIJs plus a purple swirl Olympic snare. God what I wouldn't give to find that old snare. I know I never sold it.
Alright....well I will get back to you guys when this puppy gets cleaned up, then. I bet she cleans up real nice, but not necessarily quickly. : )
Nice score! Nothing wrong with that kit...Under the dust that wrap looks great. Jumping2
Have fun.
Tung oil rubbed into the mahogany does a great job of bringing out the lovely mahogany grain and improving resonance on the old shells.
Cheers!
-kellyj
