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Pearl Spin Tight Tension Rods with Acrolite/Black Beauty
I use them on my two favorite snares. I don't know what the measurement rim to lug is, but if a quarter inch of the tension rod is threaded into the...
2 years ago#11 1997 Lang/Gladstone Commemorative Snare Drum
I just drooled on myself. This is one of top two drums on my beauty scale; The other being the Cadillac green Max Roach Gretsch...which came up on eBa...
2 years agoGretsch Authenticity Question
From what I'm recalling, there are many many Gretsch snares with the Micro and no snap in key holder. The Micro started back in the 50's. Progressive...
2 years agoBurying cymbals in dirt to make them sound better
I did this back around 2004-6. It was a 20 inch Zildjian medium ride with holes for three rivets. Buried without rivets. Just short of two years. Simp...
2 years agoIs car wax safe for wrap finishes?
Depends. Good quality car waxes can be great or bad. Good for drum wrap:Those final stages of Novus are great. Bad: If you get the waxy kind that you...
2 years agoMuffler felt. Can you wash it? :)
Yes, it will be fine...but it does shrink a bit in the dryer: Like a sweater would, since it is made of wool. So next time I wash my muffler, in forty...
2 years agoGlue or Reattach Inlay Strips?
The problem with double sided tape is that when the inlay expands, it pushes outward and the double sided tape holds parts close and the wrap expands...
2 years agoAaaaaaaand...we're back!
We should be able to like a post.
2 years agoLeedy Shelly Manne snare drum info please
First time that Ive seen the correct way to run the snares. I did not know that the snares went over the bearing edge. That might make quite a differe...
2 years agoRepair it with matching wrap or leave it alone?
Leave it alone. It is a rare lifting-wrap repair that ends up looking better than what you already have. I would cut the lifting part right off and th...
2 years agoLooking for feedback on 9 piece Emerald Green Pearl Gretsch Stop Sign Badge Drum Set
Ah. Camber. My first cymbals. I loved my Cambers. But they did sound like crap in retrospect.
3 years agohow to approach bearing edge crack on Radioking
Silver solder will work there, but the heat will make the chrome discolored. Not lead/rosin core stuff at all, that will just break away from a chrome...
3 years agoMy 1963 Shelly Manne Drum Set
Alright. You’ve forced me to post a pic of mine. Well...Once was mine. I stupidly sold it. It went to a great guy in New Jersey. The Shelly Manne drum...
3 years agoMarket Contraction? What Say You All?
uh. I hate to break it to you, but there have been threads about this for more than a year. It is tied to the economic distress...which started over a...
3 years agoLooking for Gretsch 50's single flange 16" Ft hoop
I am looking for those too! I'll stay away so we don't get into a bidding war on eBay.
3 years ago