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Interesting information... and even though they may just be rare and "collectable" with the steel wrap, you'd still be hard pressed to find someone who is actually looking for them. The bottom line is that they are Exports, and as far as resale goes that style of lug has never been real popular or desirable.

To flip, I wouldn't pay more than $250, if that much. To a player you might be able to get $350 to $400. Just my :2Cents:.

Bill

BTW -- I've got a pair of Pearl maple shell 14x24s in the steel/chrome wrap and mine have the standard lugs. I've never received much interest in them when offering them for sale, and many on here can attest that I don't price my stuff high...

If you look at the reflection of the flash, it make a perfectly straight line the same thickness from top to bottom. This means the finnish is perfectly flat and free of imperfections, if you spin the drum and the line warps, that would be an imperfection. Yours look great and perfect.

Is the snare Stainless Steel, I see crimps ?

The drums are in good shape and look good. While rare, I doubt they are collectible in the sense of what we would generally consider collectible. They are Exports after all which is basically a lower to mid level kit. While not positive I would assume that when the Pearl Corporate office says Mahogany, you should read that as Luan. Fun kit to have though.

It's a nice pearl export kit for sure and the 13" tom kick's A$$ here is some pic's of the same kit that i restored for a customer last year .

Hey 2sx

thanks for the PM

that kit have is really nice, how hard was to to re wrap those? did you use stain less wrap when you refirbished? I heard that stuff is hard to work with, (and expensive) I would never attempt to do a job like that. did you get your money back ou fo them?

On this kit to re-wrap it in new stain less steel would be big money and a deal breaker for my customer so we when with buffing out the metal wrap and hand polished every nut and bolt from top to bottom , replaced all the tension rods and the plastic tom and bass drum inserts , the one good thing about that job was the bearing edges were in mint cond , We also re skined the kit with Aquarian heads tops and bottoms wich made this kit stand out in sound

The customer was very happy with our work and giged the kit for a while and later sold his kit to the tune of a decent profit including my shop cost and let me tell you and it was not for the low ball numbers that were mentioned.

great job! looks killer!

Personally I would hang onto the kit unless you absolutely need the money. If selling I'd do so via Ebay unfortunately. Write up a fancy history and take a photo of the email from Pearl HQ. Who knows? And that refurb by drums is exquisite!