Found this abomination in our local junior high school. Looks like someone had disassembled and stripped whatever wrap was on it and “refinished” it. Someone replaced the rims, tension screws and re-drilled for a MIJ strainer and butt plate as I am sure the original clamshell strainer died the first time a middle schooler laid his hands on it (or it was broken before it got donated to the school). Long story short, I fixed a few other drums and traded some equipment to them in exchange for this and another drum which I will detail in another post on here.
Judging by the serial number and the model of the drum I think it could be from the last year they made them in 1962. I am fairly confident it is the solid maple shell and it is in pretty good condition. Still has the original tone control and lug casings.
My plan is to fill the drilled holes and fix the minor re-ring separation, wrap it in Jammin’ Sam’s Champagne sparkle, get new stick saver rims, tension rods and Gibraltar Slingerland 3-point strainer from DFD and slap it all together.
Any suggestions before I start spending money on it?
