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Picked up a couple Ludwig snares
Nice find! Beautiful looking old drum there. Nice job on cleanup. I love that wood shelled drum. The Ludwig hoop logo is smart. Sweet drums :)
10 years agoOld Maple Gretsch snare drum
I've never put a sound file up on the Forum - or at least that I can remember. I might try that a bit later.
10 years agoOld Maple Gretsch snare drum
DTF - yes, good point regarding the 'natural maple finish'. Mark - I'm enjoying this snare lots. I set my red sparkle 54 Gretsch kit up last night a...
10 years agoOld Maple Gretsch snare drum
The badge is what caught my eye - I've never come across it other than after I picked this up someone on fb showed me one in his badge collection. I c...
10 years agogretsch lug washers
I need lots of Gretsch 60's era lug washers - not the ones under the hex bolts - I need the round ones. gary
10 years agoGretsch Snare - Need help identifying
I now own the drum - thanks BigBang, EBay purchase last Sunday. It's in the mail now. :) Thanks for the email too. Cheers, Gary
10 years agoJIMMY PRATT mute install?
From BuddyLudwig...
10 years agoJIMMY PRATT mute install?
I was taking my Sunset Satin Flame bass drum apart today to clean it. The mute looks to be installed backwards but I'm not 100% on that because I don...
10 years agoNo more kits
I think what you're saying is there's not as much available for the prices of years gone by. I would have to agree with you if that's what you mean....
10 years agoGretsch bass drum tom hanger - repair suggestions please
Hi Kevin - I'm not the most concerned about hiding the mount base - although it should be haha. Where I'm at now is I don't want to 'fix' the butcher...
10 years agoGretsch bass drum tom hanger - repair suggestions please
pgm554 - that does look like a functional double tom holder. I have a couple of these Gibraltar stands which I can surely rig to suit what I need in...
10 years agoGretsch bass drum tom hanger - repair suggestions please
Jerrysterken - Part of the issue here is that it's a rare finish - it may be difficult or impossible to find a 'piece of matching' Sunset Satin Flame...
10 years agoNo more kits
I think what happens next is that we all get too old to have the vintage collections and our family (or ourselves) start selling everything off and th...
10 years agoGretsch bass drum tom hanger - repair suggestions please
Here's some photos with more lighting. I think I will take the easy way out and leave the bass drum mount as is - it may come to have been a good cho...
10 years agoGretsch bass drum tom hanger - repair suggestions please
Lots of great ideas! Thanks. Ya - longjone - I would like to think this is NOT a 'factory' install. But what happened? Did someone do this install...
10 years ago