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Help me understand what I have?
Obviously a marching snare from the 60's. Appears to be a "High Tension" model. Someone (or some school) painted or powder coated the hardware white....
7 years agoPadded Drum Bags
For storage (or cautious transport) the Galaxy bags work fine. I have one set in Galaxy bags and they seem to be fine but, all things being equal, I'd...
7 years agoRogers Drums
Very Nice! I'm jealous.
7 years agoDating a Ludwig Shell
I'd echo what Mike said. 14x14 Club Date style floor toms weren't introduced until around 1963-64 ish. Drums destined to be painted (you could request...
7 years agoDrum badges how were they made?
Gretsch and Ludwig obtained their badges from outside vendors that specialized in that sort of product. My guess is that Slingerland did the same.
7 years agoSilver badge Supra
Yeah, I have an early Black Beauty with a badge like that. Mine has a serial number hand etched into it. It was a drum a classmate of mine bought new...
7 years agoRogers drum set
Unless they are trashed they would definitely have some value. Additional information would be necessary to figure out the extent of that value though...
7 years agoGretsch Drum Set - 1940's or later??
It wouldn't be from the 40's with those style lugs. It could be from the 50's but this style of set hung around in the catalog for a while as a lower...
7 years agoLudwig snare in Butcher Block wrap???
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7 years agoLudwig snare in Butcher Block wrap???
Someone snagged that concert tom (For $97!) was it you?
7 years agoLudwig Club Date
Initially that was the cataloged size floor tom for the Club Date Outfit. I think it was around 1964(ish) that they switched over from a 12x15 to a 14...
7 years ago$10 vintage Ludwig snare?
Interesting. The badge places it in 1984. Beyond that hard to say as it doesn't match any model I'm familiar with...but certainly worth $10 regardless...
7 years agoLudwig snare in Butcher Block wrap???
It certainly was available but probably will be hard to find one. In the era that that finish was most popular almost everyone was using metal snares...
7 years agoLudwig imperial lug breakage
Pretty sure Ludwig outsourced their lugs from outside suppliers that did their die-casting (nowadays all that stuff is imported). Probably various sou...
7 years agoTell Me About Shelbyville Slingerlands
From markrocks68...
7 years ago