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Ludwig Clubdate Overhaul
Pull the badges dude! Filing, or dremelling from the back will not disturb the badge, and if you take your time, you can preserve enough of the gromm...
11 years agoLudwig Clubdate Overhaul
Don't give up yet. Just finished my second duco strip - messy business. I used a stripping gel compound, to try to avoid contact with the lead based...
11 years ago**HELP** Have some pics of a Vintage kit BUT need help to identify..
Think I saw this one - Kijiji? Those big honkin' holes in the shells put me off. A shame, as they look like they could be nice shells - similar to s...
11 years agoCrash course in restoring MIJ drums
Way to go. Nice work on the kit, as well as the documentation. Interesting about your results with the lacquer in the snare and tom. Have only trie...
11 years agoStewart Gold Sparkle, Rectangular Badge (new member)
Welcome to the forum. Yours appears to be a Pearl drum, (have had Stewarts From Pearl, Star, and Hoshino) judging from hardware. I'd place it right...
11 years agoShould I buy this "Ludwig & WFL Bop Kit"?
Don't think it's unreasonable myself, would try to talk him down though. Bought my first vintage Ludwig kit about 15 years ago, and it wasn't matched...
11 years agoWho knows something about that Drum?
Not MIJ - looks like a decent quality, vintage drum. All hardware present? New one on me, but I'd say it was a nice score, though I'd venture that f...
11 years agoStar Gigging Kit
From ChristianB...
11 years agoSnare Identification
Looks like the lugs from a kit I had, (still have remnants of) picked up in a bundle of drum gear - got a few good bits in the deal, but these drums w...
11 years agoWhere are all the floor toms ????
That's quite an orphanage you got there dude. Not married? Yeah, don't seem to be too many stray MIJ floor toms floating around. Lots of matching k...
11 years agoDrums on a plane
Oh, I don't know that. I thought you were talking about a new Samuel. L. Jackson movie.
11 years agoRed Sparkle BD Pedal.
You got dingle balls on the kick drum? Kinda kookie - what'd you use?
11 years agoA little help from the experts...?
Appears to be perhaps late 80s/90s Pearl Exports. Don't know too much about, other than not really vintage. Color is unremarkable, and the deep dime...
11 years agoHelp Identifying Drum Kit
I'm thinking possibly Pearl Valencia, original 3 piece from the sixties, with 13", and floor tom added later, (70s, possibly also Pearl, or stencil th...
11 years agoMIJ Bass drum tom mount help
Hey Dad - checked my inventory, and none, of the few consolettes I have are two screw mounts. Yeah, this vintage MIJ thing can be a tricky business....
11 years ago