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Bass drum "T" rod spacer sleeves
Here's something I found while on a quest for some spacers to go between the T handle and claw on one of my vintage sets. I found these craft "beads"...
10 years agoFinished my "Peacock" Slingerland project.
I just remembered I've got a Radio King 12x14 with bad wrap and there's enough of this peacock wrap left to cover it so I think this set may have to d...
10 years agoludwig white interiors
I've heard that the purpose of the white paint was so they could use either mahogany or maple for the inside ply (whichever they had on hand) and stil...
10 years agoFinished my "Peacock" Slingerland project.
From DownTownFarmer...
10 years agoFinished my "Peacock" Slingerland project.
Here's what I originally brought home from MGR 7-8 years ago. They look better in the picture than they actually were. I almost bought the set for $35...
10 years agoFinished my "Peacock" Slingerland project.
Just finished up a project I'd been working for the past few weeks. These are vintage Slingerland drums that I rewrapped in that new version of Peacoc...
10 years agoBrought home Standards tonight.
From skapunk_edge...
10 years agoBrought home Standards tonight.
From idrum4fun...
10 years agoBrought home Standards tonight.
From ec_curtis...
10 years agoBrought home Standards tonight.
Blue (and Ruby) Strata seems to have been among the more popular Standard wraps so finding a matching 12 or 13" tom should be pretty easy. That "virg...
10 years agoBrought home Standards tonight.
Those are correct. Not sure why they used those. One assumes it was a cost savings measure of some sort but I'm unsure why using a different one would...
10 years agoBrought home Standards tonight.
I don't have a picture handy (or a drum to photograph) but they did use a different T rod on the bass drums than the regular Ludwig classics used. Fr...
10 years agoAny 1940s Vintage Look Modern Stands?
You could create your own using the base from and older Ludwig snare stand with that sort of a tripod base mated with the upper two sections of a Ludw...
10 years agoLudwig Flat-Base HH stand ID
It is an 1121 base. Looks like the top tube may be from an 1123-1 or 1124 with the flat metal "cup" instead of the rubber type used on the 1121 and 11...
10 years agoLudwig head scratcher
Another possibility is that the set was sitting in a music store for a year or two and then someone wanted a WMP snare and they sold the snare they ha...
10 years ago