Following on the heels of this lively debate, and while watching the fire, I had a ring on the doorbell from the UPS dude. He dropped a box full of old MIJ and Krut cymbals from my recent battles on the internet hate site....The cymbals are all rather funky sounding, and a couple are actually quite nice.
Now on to the show...er, shell. This old shell was advertised as a MIJ blue sparkle 12x8. After I took it apart and started to try removing the head, I found it is a calf head, stuck tightly to a Slingerland shell...please let me know if I am mistaken.