Try www.Stdrums.de

Gerd Stegner is a great guy and has lots of old Sonor hardware. I just checked the site and it says he is out of Swinger lugs but I would send him an e-mail anyways and let him know what you are looking for. He also has replacement lugs with the same mounting hole space for those looking for something different.

Other than that, keep an eye on the Bay. They turn up occasionally.

Thanks for your help I will give him a try.

[COLOR="DarkRed"]John, that's a great site ! Guy has a lotta stuff ![/COLOR]

I have noticed earlier in this forum that the multi-brilliant finish is only available in the tear drop drums. Can someone explain to me what that is, is it a reference to the lugs? My kit has the wrap code MF but has the same lugs as the blue kit which is in the picture in the catalogue earlier in this forum. When my Dad bought it he got the guy to add an extra tom (Which i took off years ago) so i know the tom mount is not original other than that I was hoping it is the real Mccoy. It still has the original heads on the bottom of the drums and they have the sonor logo. Here are some pics Mallet Player2

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[COLOR="DarkRed"]I can't answer your Q, but that's a cool old satin flame wrap on those ![/COLOR]

You're right....you have a set with a multi brilliant finish! The information I posted was given to me by a good friend and collector who lives in Germany. I think he had never seen one and as we all know, rules in drum building are made to be broken. You definitely have a Swinger. The other interesting thing is the Swinger badge on the rack tom which I have personally never seen. I would be extremely interested to know the date code(s) which you will find stamped inside the shell(s), a 3 digit number.

You did not provide a picture of your tom mount so I can't say whether it was original or not. They were available with two rack toms as you can see in the catalog picture.

"Tear Drop" is the style of the lug. The lug looks like a teardrop.

The tom mount is definatley not original I can see on the inside of the shell where the origanal fixings were, I can only make out a code in the tom it is very faint but I'm sure it say's 112, I can't find it inside the floor tom. I have always used this kit for practice with rubber pads on the heads, the resonant heads have the sonor logo on them, the tom has a premier batter head but the floor tom has a remo weather king batter with the sonor logo on it as well, is it possible this could have been there since the set was purchased? The sticker's have the words sonor made in germany and the logo.

The tom was made in December, 1971 from the date code. Definitely sounds like you have some original Sonor heads on the reso sides and on the FT batter. Cool set, thanks for posting.

Greetings guys. I want to say that i also own one Sonor Swinger - at least i think so. Its in pretty bad condition so i will have to earn much into him. I've read the whole thread so i'd like to tell few of my things. First of all, i also got my 3piece set in black though you're saying it originally came in some colorful wrap. As second thing i'd like to mention that i dont have reso hoops and reso heads, I dont know why, but thats what i got. I cant seem to find any identification number inside the shell, atleast in toms, will check bass drum too soon. If you want i can take few pictures and show it, i must say again that its in pretty bad condition at the moment and im trying to invest as much as i can in him, im about to order new drum heads and new hoops to put them on resonant side of floor and tom tom.

Im in kinda situation as this user here, but in case you didnt knew, i dont want to sell this drum. Its worth more than some DW drum from 2006th for me :)

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