I bought this great little Slingerland set several years ago from a guy who had them laying among a lot of unused household items on the screen porch of his old house out in the Texas countryside. He wanted $125 for the three drums and some rusty old stands. I thought that the price was fine. The 8x12, 14x14,and 14x20 were complete with playable heads. The only issue was the that the bands of White Sparkle wrap were ruined. The Red Glass Glitter bands and the Blue Glass Glitter bands were in 9/10 condition after a light cleaning. But, the clear plastic ply for the white bands had delaminated from the white with sparkles bottom ply. There were large brown blotches all over the white wrap.

It was an easy decision to remove the white wrap and replace it. I chose to have Precision send me replacement wrap and bass drum hoop inserts made of Vintage White Marine Pearl that was cut to size. Why the WMP? Well, it goes pretty well with my vintage Radio King 4x13 snare drum. I've also used Red Sparkle and Blue Sparkle snares with the drum set.

Here's my question. Dr. CJW says that the chocolate milk interior paint that is inside these drums was used from 1966 to 1972. The serial number on the 8x12 is 19851 and the serial number on the 14x14 is 19877. The bass drum serial number is very close tho those. but, I'm too lazy to pull the bass drum out of its resting place to look at the number right now. My hunch is that the drums are probably from 1969 or 1970. They are definitely not from the bicentennial 1976 tri-color frenzy from drum makers.

What is your opinion for the year these drums were made?