Hey Lee the kit is lookin good~! That 16x16 concert tom is crazy!! I was wondering how things were going thanks for the update.

Glenn.

The four orphaned concert toms, stipped and prepped and ready for black wrap on order from Precision. 13x9; 14x10; 15x12; 16x16.

Found a second 318 double tom stand so kit expansion is coming together.

Concert toms re-wrapped and mounted on 318 stands.

Lee

Beautiful!

Lee they look fantastic. I remember seeing a Premier ad in Down Beat mag many years ago with Keith Moon playing his set just like this one. All those toms are just wicked cool~! Great job. Cool1

Lee,

That is pretty outstanding! Did anyone ever make a cooler looking stand than a Premier Lokfast? I think not. I do have a couple of questions:

a.) How do you go about finishing the bottom of the wrap on a concert tom?

b.) Have you figured out to physically reach the concert tom row while playing?

tnsquint:

Thanks. Yes, the LokFast gear is so cool looking. When all the cymbal stands and the hi-hat stand are set up, it's impressive. And Premier's chrome work stands up pretty well to the test of time.

As to the bottom edge of the concerts, I just tried to get a nice clean edge of the wrap a little bit above the bearing edge when I was putting the wrap on.

As to reaching the toms, it is a bit of an aerobic event now. Kind of sitting at the edge of the throne and reaching out a bit. Still a work in progress to get around the toms, but they sound amazing.

Should be getting my custom mount plates back from the chrome plater next week.

Lee

The kit is finally "DONE"?!?! in the sense that it is as complete as I can make it at the moment; it will do for now. There are some things I would like to change/improve and I may down the road, but for now here it is.

The basic kit is comprised of the following vintage Premier drums:

2-22x14 kicks

3-14x8 mounted toms

2-16x16 floors

1-16x18 floor

The snare is a great sounding vintage 14x5 Ludwig Supraphonic

The cymbals are all Paiste 2002 (16, 18, 20") except for the hi-hat (which I need to upgrade). All the cymbals are mounted on LokFast stands.

The kick pedals are 2 Premier 250s.

The stool is an old Premier red top.

The rack toms are mounted using Rogers Swiv-o-matic hardware, two double tom mounts drummer's right and two single tom mounts drummers left.

The custom mounting plates under the Rogers tom mounts and the kick spurs were fabricated by me and a good buddy of mine to replicate plates on the original kit.

I show the kit in two configurations, circa late 1972 when the second Rogers S-O-M double tom mount was added to the kick drummer's right and the second single Rogers S-O-M tom mount was added to the kick drummer's left.

Then I show the kit is its 1973-era form with the addition of the 4 concert toms: 13x9, 14x10, 15x12 and 16x16, mounted on two Premier 318 LokFast stands.

I want to thank all the folks here and out there in the ether who offered assistance, encouragement, advice and drum parts large and small for this project. It's been a real blast working on it.

I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Lee

With the concert toms.