That is a beautiful kit!!!! Is that the Celebrity kit with the knobbie up front? Sharp!!

Congrats,

Dave

I think it is a Celebrity kit based on the sizes and the other cymbal mount up front. All the tags say Holiday model with Dayton, OH factory tags and speckle grey interior paint. It is the blue pearl finish. My guess is that its a 1969 kit from what I can gather.

Really nice! Your going to like them.

Here is a shot of the tag in the bass drum.

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The small wrap issues aside I now I am seeing I did get a good deal. All original hardware and not altered. The sizes are 13,16 and 22. This is the first kit in this size for me in a while. Normally I never go with a 13" rack tom.

really nice-lookin' set. turn the 16 right side up & you're ready to rock!....marko

I think for storage reasons they had the floor tom upside down. I will shoot some more pictures today. Hardware is in great condition! Chrome is all clean and hardly any pitting. No rust at all.

Sweet lookin Blue Strata Pearl. 5 ply Maple-Poplar-M-P-M shells. You'll love the sound!

Have fun.

HughD' Drummer

stole it

now unport that bass drum and flip the floor tom :)

gorgeous kit made by one of the most cutting edge innovative drum companies to ever exist

A couple shots setup:

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The quality of the work on these drums is unreal. I can't believe how well done everything is:

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Now here is the not so good:

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I am not overly bothered by it. For safety sake I did check the drum shells and they were all fine. There are some products to fix laminate that might work or I had a low tech approach using some sealer wax in a pearl color. Would at least fill in the gaps and blend. For any gigs I might use this kit for no one would ever see these issues from a few feet away.

I was not aware of the blend of woods in these shells but wow they sound great!

1968 Blue Stata Buddy Rich Celebrity. Very nice! The wraps crack due to shrinkage that generally plagued the strata finishes. They apparently used an adhesive that just didn't have enough give, and bango.

Onyx from the same era tends to crack longitudinally and strata sort of vertically. I had the same era and color kit in 18,12,14 and the mounted tom had the vertical stress cracks. I had a 20,12,14 in pink strata and the seams on both sides of the bass and on the tom sheared right down the whole seam.

It's a shame because strata may been the most attractive finish Rogers ever used. It is very beautiful in 1968, but then becomes progressively less attractive as Rogers began to buy something much closer to oyster as time went on.

I currently have a black strata 14x14 that is perfect. Looking for bass and tom if anyone has them. Must be right around the 100,000 mark on the tag to match. In fact, I'd consider buying a 20,12,16 if anyone has that.