Hey Knavel,
Ironic indeed!
RE your brothers kit, I'd love to see a pic if you find the time to post/upload it, always looking for ideas.
I'll looking into the 3M stuff, sometimes I can order that kind of thing through Farnell or RS Components, electronic parts stores, but they often have access to adhesives.
I've located a source for the leg tips and original tom mount wingnuts, the same guy also restores microstrainers, waiting on costs though.
On closer inspection it seems the bass drum spur mounted were retrofitted and are actually Premier mounts, now to find Premier spurs, not sure I want to switch back to Gretsch now since they have added extra holes for them... GRRR.
Any thoughts on heads? A drum tech suggested Remo Coated Ambassadors all round, both resonate and batter heads.
Let me know if you ever make it down here again, I'll take you out to Thelema and we can hit a couple other spots along the way.
Cheers
Matt
Matta,Thanks for the feedback. Ironically the guys I used to work with in SA were in London today and I just had lunch with them.Real quick: When my brother got his kit in the finish you have, there was no mounted tom. My other brother created one on a stripped tom we found by using standard black and then some sort of lacquer that he dropped sparkles on to and then they dried. It was pretty darn close, no one could tell unless they looked closely. I can send a pic if you like when I get back home.Maybe that's a way to patch. The greatest adhesive for wrap is 3M 30NF, I just used it for my own peeling Gretsch wrap. I had to really struggle to get this from USA so here again might be a problem. Leg tips I bought at my local hardware store. I just took the legs in and got ones that fit. Not rubber as much as that plasticy vinyl but looked good at the end of the day.However you fix that snare just be sure that you don't add any holes--as if you need me to tell ou this..... I'm pretty sure you can find those strainers on ebay if you don't mind the wait and surely you can rig up something in the meantime.OK gotta run but let me know. The saddest day was when I finished my last bottle of Thelema estate wine a few years ago from the time before they had all those different variations. You should go there that drum set gives you a reason to celebrate. I've talked about doing the cape argus bike ride and when I do maybe I can get my fix of drumming :)
