Hello there!
I will try to be as abbreviated as possible in my long-windedness, trying to produce the most basic and factual run-down on the reality I never thought I would be lucky enought to see in my lifetime (on a budget like mine). I'm proud to tell you of The long awaited day, when I found me a Throne behind a set of buckets worthy of greatness!
(before I begin, I need to say my connection is about 20%, so the photo's MAY take me longer, and need to be posted seperately, forgiveness please)
I have always been the person in the band who took notice, the respect your equiptment truly deserves, and am slowly beggening to make an impact on how other people regard the treatment and understanding of their gear, and why It is important to start to "know your stuff" and earn the pride of scoring excellent vintage gear and seeing it for what it Truly IS!
This is a story of one of those moments when you know it was "fate" or destiny if you prefer? sometimes you miss out on a great peice of gear for a reason, only to later find something that could have only been meant for YOU and no one else.
It begins new years eve 2010, I've always talked about putting together a larger sized vintage kit, peice by peice if I had to. but never knew I was closer than I thought, the first peice was a 20'' 1969 Ludwig floor tom, It cost 500 bucks and was missing some vital elements, total players drum, random fluke I found this thing, It was warped pretty good, and the guy who I bought it from was going to sell it on Ebay, had to talk him out of it with cold hard cash...and this was the first step, to sit on this and wait for the peices to fall into place.
It needed a complete overhaul, I had to learn fast!
didn't look like much but I was told to leave the black spray paint alone, as is from the seller...my curiosity was itching the back of my weakening mind.
I don't have much "process" shots, but I will give you 3 shots of before, during and after the 6 hour strip-job I painstakingly underwent.
(please stand by, I need to Resize a few images before I can post them).