The three toms are cleaning up pretty well

somewhere, there has to be a bass drum? or decent mod orange shell?

Did you ever find a bass drum?

Cheers

Hello grantro

Well yes and no

after well over a year of daily web searches (I even checked in with BEC a few times)

In all that time only three possible candidates came up

The first was a keystone club date bass which was not suitable

the second drum was a pristine B/O 22" virgin with very vivid purple

The asking price was 1,200.00 and the drum was simply too nice to match up very well with my three moderately faded toms.

finally about a month ago I found a 22" keystone badged (1968) bass.

the drum is perhaps a tad more faded in the purple department (almost none) than are my toms (some traces of purple)

It cost me $600.00 (shipped) and is otherwise pretty complete

save for a section of mod orange inlay on both hoops. the seller also included the block lettered double tom arm and a fresh old-school logo resonant head.

So the kit from a practical and visual sense is complete and the match looks really awesome

but I still look every day for a fade matching bass that is B/O era correct

I know there's the thrill of the hunt and finding original examples, but if it was me, I'd just buy a old beater Ludwig set and recover them in new Mod Orange wrap, of which, there's plenty out there. It would save a lot of time spent searching and probably $$ too.

Hello Bob I can see your point

but my angle on it was I wanted to put to best use

these three nice original born together toms I already had

Best case scenario was a fade matching era correct blue /olive bass drum

But after waiting over a year for one and seeing just how seldom they appear as orphaned drums

I grew impatient and settled for a very close color match and had to bite the bullitt on the era correct thing