did you get them!?

I went and looked at it, since it looked like it could be rescued. I pointed out the obvious flaws and we promptly agreed on a significantly reduced price I and brought them home. Here a pic in my shop. I need a better way of resizing pictures.

Nice score on those! Looks like they will clean up nice. Missing parts are easy to get. Looks like the seem on that floor tom is coming up, is it?

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Welcome to VDF!

Congrats. Love the silver sparkle. Total class. $300 would have been a good deal. Can't wait to see what you do with them.

Hi again, thanks! Here are a couple more pictures to show, and some close ups of the 12 inch tom. When I first looked at the kit, the bass looked intact and in ok shape except some seam lifting, wrap fade, and wear-through on the hoops. Floor tom also not too bad except seam lifting. The 13 inch tom was missing the bottom hoop, so I measured across and it seemed to be 1/8 inch out. In retrospect I am thinking that it has always been that way, for reasons I will post about later. The 12 inch tom looked like dumpster material to me. Some Billy-Joe-Bob decided to rewrap the kit and gave up fast. It looks like an angry beaver gnawed the grommet out and screwed up the badge, and the wrap was just tacked back out of place by something between hot melt glue and rubber cement. Hardware all long gone except one rim. Seems pretty round, some problems with the edges which I will also post about...

great base to start from, how are the bearing edges?

If the 12 is shot, you at least have spare wrap, wood and lugs for repairs!

The 12 looked like trash initially, but I think I overthought it. I can get it back in shape, just a lot more work. The only hardware it had was the one rim, but I very coincidentally have all the lugs and the 12 and 13 rims in my spare parts box from a trashed Ludwig Power Station I dismantled before Christmas. I still need to find where I hid the spare tension rods, and I am pretty sure I have a spare tom mount bracket.

I put a picture of the wrap "seam" as found, with a crack in the wrap (open to suggestions on how to make that invisible). I heated it with my heat gun and slipped a palate knife in, came apart easily. The shell is not so bad except for the beaver hole. I may need to plug and redrill that one. The bearing edges have some issues. There is a hump at the area of overlap of the shell (same thing on the 13) which I will need to fix. Also a few separations to glue.

So here is where I am. What do you all think of low viscosity cyanoacrylate glue for the bearing edge cracks? I was thinking about breaking out the Durham's putty for the voids, even though it is probably not necessary. I don't think the bearing edges were ever flat and round. Should I lightly sand the outer shell before reattaching the wrap? Should I use naptha or some other solvent to clean the inside of the wrap?

I wouldn't use CA as it makes the wood rock hard.

Use standard wood glue and a clamp.

You can use a sandable wood putty for any damage that needs filling etc.

To re-adhere the wrap is outside of my skill set.

In the countertop world we use contact adhesive sprayed on both parts to adhere the laminate.