This is an interesting one. I got it for all of $120. Here are the specs: beavertail-like lugs (with the characteristic washers that Premier lugs have), retractable kick drum legs, dark wood with lighter wood re-rings, and an elliptical tom bracket on the kick drum. The snare has the double-ended shark-tooth lugs and flat-head tension rods. No snare strainer or snare-side rim. Batter ring seems to be die-cast, as it's quite heavy.
But she's a bit of a basket case: plugged (with dried-out wood putty) holes for reso-side lugs (and therefore no reso-side lugs), no floor tom leg brackets, the rack tom brackets are cream crackers, the re-rings on the 13 and 14" rack toms need to be re-glued, and the bearing edges need attention. The floor tom and the kick are pretty solid, especially since the kick always had it's reso head on. He did have the original flat-based stands, but they were pretty poor.
Also, this rocket scientist painted the original pearl finish (looked like WMP) black with a rattle bomb. That wrap is gone. Weird, weird muffling methods were employed- everything from thermal underwear sleeve cuffs to G'd knows what else. The original Premier snare was taped under the batter head of the snare. There was a crudely crafted, high-pitched cowbell hanging off of a tension rod on one of the rack toms.
My plans: use the rack and the kick, flog the snare, and possibly flog the rack toms. I will keep the lugs, though will look for a set of ten hi-tension lugs for the kick (as the hole spacing is identical for using the one-piece lugs).
Tell me what you think I have. How do I post pics on this forum? Would there be any point in trying to flog the orphan rack toms in light of them needing such TLC? Should I try to fix them?
