Welcome to the VDF, go to the top of the forum page under Vintage drum Identification look at the serial number link, and you can find the year your drums are they are 60's but that all I can tell you as you stated blurry pics, I could make out the first two numbers but that's all, this is a very nice professional drum kit!!

Try setting the camera down on a hard surface in front of the drum, zoom in on the badge until it is in focus & click. You may have to put a couple of books under the camera to get the right elevation. This should help getting clearer pics.

Just a suggestion.

Cheers

Hi Guys, thanks for the welcome :)

-vintagemore2000: Ok, great, I hadn't yet seen that SN lookup, just the badge page, thanks for the info. I had read where across the years SL hadn't been consistent on SN's or at times kept a cumulative database as such.

-grantro: absolutely, my thoughts rattled through- "do I have tripod for this thing?" (I don't.) Thanks for the tip(s).

What's happened is that I've collected overtime more than I can use. I've got a Ludwig Vistalite (clear) 8 piece double bass kit that due to personal choice, the 22" bass is more my thing than the smaller 20". What I want to do is get these drums (SL's) to someone whom wants 'em for what they are (ie- a good home) and for a fair # for buyer/seller. With the drums, I've got the "smoothie" hi-hat, one cymbal stand, and a Slingerland bass pedal. One other detail on this kit is that nowhere on the interior of the drums (any of them) has any stamp of year or otherwise. To clean the hdw, this was a complete disassemble, and unless I missed something, there are no ink stamps.

This isn't 'quite' a complete kit, the tom was a side flat slide-in mount (that broke off; the tab off the mount broke, the tom part stayed intact.) (I think I removed the tom mount, have to check/look.) This slide in mount point was from a tubular side base mount (that I took off years ago and is now gone.) Someone whom wants to mount some new hardware in a 4-5 piece kit off the base with a new hole is welcome to do it on this 20" bass.

I'll get the badge/SN stuff worked out and post back; thanks you guys for your replies. -sl9

[COLOR="Green"]Nice set ! Niles badge original 3pc BDP thin shells w\re-rings !!! If she's in good shape (no extra holes, wrap is good, no shell damage, & chrome still pretty good) that's a $500-plus set - eeeeeeeeasy[/COLOR] Cool1 [COLOR="Green"]Add another $100 for the stands & pedal. $600 would be a quick-sale - you could probably get $700-750 if you were patient. [/COLOR] [COLOR="Gray"]Don't get your drift about the tom-mount stuff though - something missing\busted ? Don't see any tom mount hardware in any of the photos:confused:[/COLOR]

would you be willing to part this out? I really need a Slingerland BDP 16 inch floor from the 60s to complete one of my sets.

I guess different people have different lines in the sand about this, but parting out sets of drums is a line I won't cross. These drums have been together 40 plus years.

Why break up the family now?

If it is 14x,xxx it would be about '67 by the serial number guide.

Nice set........ hope it remains a set !!

Clapping Happy2

beautiful set, wish i had the extra money D' Drummer -kev-

Hey guys, thanks for the replies. Thought I had email notification turned on, I didn't. ...didn't know there was new replies.

-jaye: thanks! wow, $, no kidding. Man, great! Yeah, the wraps, shells, and chrome are all in good shape. For all mentioned so far, got the drums, a gold sparkle snare that wasn't a slingerland (didn't like it, this is long gone), the high hat stand w/12" hats, a ride cymbal stand with a 20" ride, and the pedal for $300. This was the drum set my dad bought me when I was 10.

For the tom comments- this was about the 13" tom over the bass. Not sure how to describe this. The bass had a tube mounted just off center from the center badge. This tube contoured to the curve of the bass drum. From this the tom mount arm attached. At the top of the tom arm was a tab at the end. The tom had this mount plate, a square turned on end so it looked like a diamond and in the middle was a slot the bass drum tom arm tab would slide in to. So... you would simply grab the tom, slide it up and off, and disassemble the tom from the bass like that. Under use, eventually the tab broke off. Used a snare stand to mount the tom there after. After mounting the tom on a snare stand, I then took off the tom mount plate and the tube thing from the bass pretty much for looks at the time. Since, these two pieces got lost and I no longer have them.

-musicaldeath: worth asking, but I'd like to keep the three together -> I'd think it'd be more difficult to sell as 2, etc. good luck tho

-kevins: '67, ok. the toms are in the 132,xxx range

-kevmugen71: thanks!

Got the S/N's and a better shot of a badge (the bass.) Was reading how they'd put the badges in a bin and manually pulled badges when they needed 'em from there, wonder if this is why the bass s/n is so far from the toms.

13" 132816

16" 132827

20" 184498

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