Wow, this whole MIJ identification thing has just gotten so frustrating...
Ralf, the wrap on your rack tom looks like it was produced in the exact same way as the Lido Supreme (Star made) bass drum on the other thread. The only difference is that the Lido has black diamond pearl 'strands' or 'stripes' and your tom is blue diamond pearl strands. The Lido is also, definitely, one piece of wrap. This must be how the wrap was made. If you notice, the strands on both of these wraps are different sizes. Looks like the strands on your tom are larger at the top of the photo and get smaller. On the Lido, the strands seem to be set at random.
Anyway, there seem to be a few possibilities regarding your tom. Let's examine the possibilities:
1. Your tom is a Pearl made drum wrapped in a pattern that was available to both companies.
2. Your tom is a Star made drum, judging by the lugs, that was ordered as a 'virgin drum' with no mounting holes drilled, and later fitted with a Pearl mounting system at a shop or a distributor (?). I mean, haven't we time and time again identified those lugs as Star's Slingerland copies? (With the thinner flat spot on the top of the lug as opposed to Pearl's Sling copies that have a wider flat spot.)
3. Pearl made drum that was later fitted with Star lugs. (I think that, although this is certainly possible, this is the least likely scenario as the Star made lugs, in my experience anyway, are more prone to breakage than the Pearl lugs which seem to be more substantial.)
The maple wood I dont think is a very helpful indication of the manufacturer here as 95% or more of these drums are luan (both Pearl and Star) and the seemingly random birch or maple plies thrown in here or there haven't signified any maker in any previous examples.
Finally, looking at that last pic of the tom's mounting piece, the smudges in the wrap around the diamond shaped piece seem to indicate that there was possibly another type of mounting system on this drum, which tells us... ?
