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Vintage, scroll-engraved CHROME Black Beauty?
That is a 60s or 70s made in Japan strainer and probably the hoops too. Lot's of mods to the drum. Some with newer Ludwig parts and others with, dirt...
1 year agoVintage, scroll-engraved CHROME Black Beauty?
Can you post pictures of the entire drum including the strainer? Based on your photos, looks like it was probably a regular black beauty that somone h...
1 year ago1970s Ludwig Lug and Tom Mystery
Could you post pictures that show the entire drum? Sounds like they started life as single headed concert toms and someone converted them to double he...
1 year agoMany parts for sale
Yeah, not to mention they are owned by a huge media company who lays claim to anything you post there.
1 year ago1930s ludwig drum kit?
Definitely 30s drums. Cool that you have a picture of your grandfather with them. The dog leg bass drum mounted arm is a Slingerland number 766 and is...
1 year agoNew england white wrap repair/restoration
You can try to remove the glue with Mineral Spirits (paint thinner), denatured alcohol or as a last resort try some lacquer thinner. In all cases, try...
1 year agoLudwig Concert bass drum
That is not unusual. They cut bearing edges on all of the shells and put them into their stock awaiting an order from a customer or from the manufactu...
1 year agoLudwig Concert bass drum
I looked through all of the online Ludwig catalogs last night and couldn't see any single headed bass drums in any catalog. Given the rounded corner b...
1 year agoLudwig mid-70's kit questions
Ok, now we are getting somewhere. That is a 16" x 18" floor tom. The size dimensions can be listed either way, but the most common way to do it...
1 year agoLudwig mid-70's kit questions
Ah, good point. That would be a lot of work to shorten a cocktail drum and reinstall the rering. The location of the badge seems perfectly...
1 year agoLudwig mid-70's kit questions
So looking at the picture of the floor tom you posted to the gallery, it is from '55 or '56. August '54 to early '55 if the hoops have Slingerland Rad...
1 year agoLudwig mid-70's kit questions
Ha, totally should have caught that on the floor tom. That does ding it somewhat, but asuming it's also a three ply, they should sound good toge...
1 year agoLudwig mid-70's kit questions
Here is a cropped version of your picture with the logo area highlighted as well as a clearer example of what the logo looks like. There...
1 year agoS-235 Ludwig triple-tom "Hollywood kit" type mount
I base the following theory on how they numbered mounts in the 70s. Since the single rail consolette was 782-1 and the double mount was a 781-2, I wou...
1 year agoLudwig mid-70's kit questions
That is a complete, catalog correct Ludwig Hollywood kit, from '74, other than having a different snare. The snare is a Ludwig Acrolite, which was the...
1 year ago