If you drive three hours for that, I hope you have something else to do there to make it worth your while, because the drums wont be.

Why is that?

They're not gonna be worth your while 'cos they're not vintage. They look like Brook Mays Rogers. I am probably wrong about the Brook Mays part, but not wrong about the non-vintage part.

Yamaha owns the name now, and it's just a name as far as this kit goes.

JC Rogers is making drums again but from what I understand it isn't like the old Rogers drums.

My advice for you would be to get familiar with the badges of 60's, and 70's American kits and then you can spot the good stuff! There is a market for the japanese stencil kits and again from what I understand people on here make them sound great all the time.

Just my limited knowledge. I am no guru! Just trying to learn from this site as well. Good luck!

Curtis

This set is junk compared to decent import entry level drums. The real Rogers (no "D") drum company went out of business by the early 1980's. Every incarnation of the brand name since then has ranged from lousy to some halfway decent upper level drums under the Brook Mays ownership of the name.

I love the real Rogers drums. They were the most innovative in hardware designs that are still being copied today. Here's my 1963 Rogers set that was manufactured in Cleveland, Ohio..

Leadybpd, those are sweet! Thanks for the input everyone, I discovered my spelling error a little too late. I am looking for drums to restore. I just bought some old 67 club dates but all they needed was a few parts and some elbo grease. I want something that needs a re-wrap job. I have done two kits with wood veneer and find that easy and fun. So I am looking for drums that could be re wrapped with veneer but they cant be too old and valuable otherwise I would wrap with more origional material. On the other hand the last ones was a Pearl stencil kit and I was very worried about the hardware breaking during re-assembly. It seems to me that the Ludwig 80s Rockers are a good canidate for the veneer job because they are not really considered collectable, at least on this site. For my next kit I want to go with birch wood and an exotic dye color topped with super gloss lacquer. After that I want to do one in a solid color. This is my new hobby that I discovered after wrapping various drums purchased from all over the U.S. that made up my current drum set. Here is a look at them.

100% SWEATSHOP drums

What do you mean by 100% sweatshop drums