Well, Ludwig didn't switch from 3-ply to 6-ply until 1977, so if you have a 1969 badge number, your drum should be 3 ply. But the only sure-fire way to know is to take off a head and count the plies.

Regards, mb

Well, Ludwig didn't switch from 3-ply to 6-ply until 1977, so if you have a 1969 badge number, your drum should be 3 ply. But the only sure-fire way to know is to take off a head and count the plies.

Regards, mb

I have taken the head of it has 3 ply plus reinforcement rings and clear inside its a maple/poplar/maple with solid maple reinforcement rings from what I was told.it sounds incredibly beautiful.

Ludwig didn't make very many maple - poplar - maple shells. Most of them by that point were mahogany outer, poplar middle and maple inner. Look at the edge with a magnifying glass and some good light. You will most likely find that the outer ply is dark brown.

This one is a 1969 which is a maple/poplar/maple ludwig did not have mahogany/poplar/maple have a look at the Ludwig shell guide they had Mahogany/poplar/ Mahogany with maple rerings.

Suit yourself but you are incorrect as is the shell guide. I guess the pointy B/O badge '70 or so clear maple interior 16"floor tom, '67, 13" white painted maple interior tom and '68, clear maple interior 20" bass drum that I currently have are all just figments. Maple Poplar Maple are very rare. I'm not saying you couldn't have one but the vast majority, like 98 to 99%, of post Mahogany Poplar Mahogany shells are Mahogany Poplar Maple.

His what else I found

Here's what else I dug up

That's wrong too. Believe what you want. Have you looked at the edges with a magnifying glass?