Great comments here...so were they luuan, coated with anything, blended with other woods eg; mahog/poplar,etc...???..I may put these in church but it sounds like they are made to ROCK!!!Walking

I have a kit with that mount - the barrel/cylinder with one setscrew on top. I swapped it out with the one that came after that - the very Rogers swivel-type with 3 set screws (still hex). It is very secure if you can find one. Obviously, not only a performance improvement, but also a visual one as well IMHO.

Great thread!

Wayne, yea multi ply with luan interior. Nephews kit has a stout coat of interior white paint. When did restore could tell the drums were assembled before paint was dry. Had to pop the washers loose.

Attached pic is a later White naga Pearl kit with the mentioned upgraded tom mount. This is the mount that was added to many a vintage drum kit. My childhood Slingerlands included. Didn't know any better at the time and just a great piece of hardware. The white naga Pearl kit is unfinished interiors.

The nephews kit is serious loud. Went with Remo black dots for batter and Attack for reso's. Just a light sand and bee's wax on the bearing edges and tuned right up. They are very nice rockers for sure.

Have a decent stash of extra parts for these so need anything just holler.

Creighton

Very decent of you..thanks!

Ha ha! Well, Rogers certainly knew how to build drums!! It didn't take me long either to switch mine over to standard Pearl fittings (the ones that go just about anywhere). The 12" I use as a rack and the 13" I've converted to a floor tom, and I must say they sound great with clear pinstripes!

Another Maxwin/CB700 fan here.

Back in the San Francisco Bay Area in the 80's it seemed like EVERY punk/garage band was hammering away on CB700 kits.

My personal drum fascination started off 3 years ago when my neighbor across the street was going to dumpster a Maxwin bass drum and tom-toms. The pile also came with one piece that is still part of my main kit, a Rogers Supreme Big R hi hat stand.

I found a CB700 floor tom on CL for $10. Another neighbor gave me a MIJ marching snare, and I was off.

Cut new bearing edges on the drums, wrapped them in sparkle vinyl.

Also switched the imitation Rogers tom mounting hardware for Pearl mounts.

Nothing at all wrong with those shells, except that when you machine lauan, it smells nasty.

But I not only got started learning to play on that kit, I learned how to do bearing edges, wraps, etc.