This has me beat. I can't work out what this drum is, apart from it being a Star stencil of some sort. I found this on the street, along with a rack tom with only the top lugs and hoop, and the bottom lugs and hoop missing. Also no wrap.
The reasoning behind my Star stencil idea is the hardware - rail mount, lugs and cymbal mount, which all match those made by Star, according to the Vintage Drum Guide. But the grommet and badge placement, plus whatever the badge was are complete mysteries to me! In the first pic is the bass shell (previous owner had spray-painted black over a nice blue marine, which is a bit of a tragedy. Also sprayed the interiors of both, which is a pain to get rid of... not sure if I should bother). Note the glue residue and badge shape where the badge was, which was spray-painted over and has been removed or fallen off or whatever.
But where it is (off to the side left of the rail mount as you would see if you were playing them) seems odd to me. Was it common for badges on MIJ kits to be off to the side?
Other pics are of the hardware. The big Star giveaway to me was the double wing bolt cymbal mount.
But the badge shape doesn't match anything I can find. The closest approximation is the Kawai and Sons badge, but that points the other way and is considerably larger, looking at pics on www.star-drums.de
Not sure what I'm going to do with these yet (they're in pretty poor shape), but I'd still like to know what they are.
Any ideas, Lads?
Thanks,
Trev
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