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Custom Orphan Marching Drums Mini-kit
This week I started a new project. It's a small commission. On internet market I bought 3 marching drum with wooden hoops. I'm taking of paint/wrap, s...
10 years agohow much for this one
Thanx Zenstat for your very elaborate reaction! The repair is soldered. 350 dollar would be around 270 euro. That's way beyond my budget especially c...
10 years agohow much for this one
Hi All, I'm not very much into values of cymbals and need help. Consider buying this cymbal. It is repaired with a piece og copper (see pictures). h...
10 years agoVan der Glas Marching Snare Drum (from Netherlands)
@wouter, I'll pm you when it's finished, I need a 14 inch hoop and some screws. But I kind of know the sound now. Pretty good, but not amazing, quite...
10 years agoVan der Glas Marching Snare Drum (from Netherlands)
@Wouter, a few weeks ago I bought, for little money, only the shell of a VDG drum like the WMP one you showed, with the very thin maple and plastic r...
10 years agoOlympic/Premier
@lucky: I tryed. And also tryed all other kind of hoops, but, as usual, plain black worked out better. Allmost allways its plain black or natural wood...
10 years agoa leftover peace of wmp ripple
I'm looking for a piece of wmp ripple, that has yellowed a bit to complete this orphan beverley marching drum kit. As you can see, the tom/tom (14 inc...
10 years agoMIJ special paint
thanx all for your compliments, more special paint kits to come.
10 years agoOlympic/Premier
thanx all for your compliments
10 years agoMIJ special paint
This is a MIJ kit I resored/special painted. Originally it was a "Lynx", comparable to Aria or Emperador. This set was in reasonable state and was 22/...
10 years agoOlympic/Premier
plain ordinary masking tape. 2 cm. wide. I used twice, hard to explain in words..... 2 cm devided by 3 makes .6666 cm. so I masked half of the amount...
10 years agoOlympic/Premier
no, it's spray painted.
10 years agoOlympic/Premier
An 20/12/16 Olympic by Premier I once bought in a very bad shape (for too much money, but that was due to inexperiencedness). I completely restored it...
10 years agoWestend set (The Hague) 1960!
if your from the netherlands: do you know John Zijlstra? Lives somewhere up in Friesland. Has many odd-sizes heads for sale. contact me, if you want h...
10 years agoadvice on heads for Beverly 26x12 bass drum
That looks really good! If it's 22/12/13/16 then I guess it's the same as the kit I have here. Happy to hear that it sounds so good. I bought mine bli...
10 years ago