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Brady Bunch Drums
Maybe Chris Partridge showed Bobby how to set them up.
8 years agoHow Rare Are These Board of Education Keystone Acrolites?
They are making new ones now you know? There was just recently a long thread about these over at the DFO...worth reading through if these interest yo...
8 years agoMiller Drumset - seeking more info
The wrap in the seam production detail on Ludwigs stopped at roughly the same time as the Standards were introduced. Prior to that the wrap was put on...
8 years agoMiller Drumset - seeking more info
In the one photo it looks like the re-ring is made of plies. Ludwig re-rings were solid maple. These don't look like typical made in Japan shells but...
8 years agoCalling Slingerland Experts
From slingerfan...
8 years agoCalling Slingerland Experts
The "P" stamp indicates a shell that was made to be wrapped in "Pearl"...in other words any drum shell meant to be wrapped in any wrap. There was also...
8 years agoIs there a way to tell if wrap is original on 66 Ludwigs
From dixiechops72...
8 years agoDoes this look Ludwig-ish to you?
From TheElectricCompany...
8 years agoDoes this look Ludwig-ish to you?
Honestly that looks like typical Ludwig construction of the era after aging under less than ideal situations...at least to my eye. They usually hid th...
8 years agoDoes this look Ludwig-ish to you?
That does look "Ludwigish" to me, especially with that white-ish wood filler near the splits which I've seen on quite a few Ludwig drums. I guess it d...
8 years agoMiller Drumset - seeking more info
Those shells do look like they could be Ludwig but they also look different than the shells of the Lemon Strata kit (at least what we can see). Odd th...
8 years agoQuestions about 70s Ludwig kit and Zildjian ride I just got.
From harryc...
8 years agoMiller Drumset - seeking more info
A 60s Ludwig shell would most typically have a mahogany inner ply, but, again, Ludwig didn't sell raw shells. Companies that did buy shells from an ou...
8 years agoMiller Drumset - seeking more info
The wrap on those is the same as the stuff Ludwig called "Lemon Strata" and used on their Standard series drums. It was a thinner, less expensive, wra...
8 years agoHello! pls help identify my drums
I'd agree. Overdrive outfit from the very tail end of the 3 ply era (1975-1977ish). White Cortex came out around 1975 3 ply shells were replaced by 6...
8 years ago