Hello all! I recently restored my 1967 Slingerland kit and wanted to share the before, during, and afters with you. I bought this kit in March 2012 and it came to me as a 20/13/14. The toms had incorrect hoops, one of the BD hoops was incorrect, the consolette was in bad shape, and someone had done a terrible rewrap job on the floor tom and decided to sand the inside of the shell at every hole while they were at it. However, I was able to use this as my practice kit for about 5 years while I acquired the correct parts and such...and they looked good from a distance. (The 13" tom is in excellent condition, so I'm going to sell it.)
These 3 drums all had chocolate milk interiors and the toms had small knob mufflers. So, I acquired a 12" tom with the same features, but with a heavily scratched and cracked gold satin flame wrap. I also acquired a previously rewrapped Hollywood Ace with chocolate milk interior from a good friend (more details on this one in the next post).
Here are photos of what I started with. I didn't get a before pic of the snare with the white satin wrap it had on it because it was an obvious rewrap considering it had a 50s to early 60s double pad muffler, which left the original bottom hole for the correct muffler in the shell but no hole in the wrap. Anyway, you can see the splotchy dark spots that were on the bass drum and the condition of the others, which is why it didn't cause me too much heartburn to rewrap these.
More in the next post.
Lynn
