I picked up yet another snare last night. It was listed on the GC website as a local listing. Stopped by just to check it out, but ended up taking it home.
A 1965 Super Sensitive with everything original except the batter head. The workers thought it was in bad shape, but all of the chrome was just covered in that splotchy condensation stain. The stuff that goes away with a quick sudsy bath and Flitz.
After cleaning the shell, it really only has a small amount of minor raised pin prick areas, a couple deeper pits and one or two small scratches. The lugs have really small evenly distributed pin pits, but they should clean up just fine.
The hoops are COB, the reso head is the original Weather Master Snare head and it has the original Ludwig 10 strand separate adjustment wires. The throw-off mechanism appeared to function normally too.
After a good cleaning, this snare is going to be a very good player's drum and might even be for sale. ;)
-Tim
