Mike, you are by far the collector here, but I would keep them together, if they are a complete kit, born together....just not really a fan of breaking up complete kits. I do hope you understand I'm not being a jerk, I just personally like to see originality and continuity. Like I said, you know far more about the world of collecting than I probably ever will.
Look, for instance, at all the Ludwig Downbeat kits that are now "incomplete" because 2 parties cared more for ultimate profit and the chance to get the only snare in the world that matches my "as of yet incomplete kit" that someone else already sold the snare out of....(it gets to be a vicious circle) than keeping them together as a complete, original kit...and now someone has to hunt, for 20 years, to find a green sparkle Downbeat snare (just the most rare sparkle wrap I could think up in a pinch...for a Downbeat kit...)...kind of a bummer, and then to have to pay $2,000 for it. And as a Sonor Lite, it would be even more impossible to find the correct, matching snare to complete it....
Please don't take this as an insult, I'm just one of those guys that, if I could ever afford a complete, rare kit, would really want it to be complete and rare. I don't think I have ever seen a green sparkle D/B, but it would certainly be a rarity for me.
I do hope I have not over-stepped my bounds as the worlds premier loser that loves cheap drums, and wishes to find that one attic-full of rarities for $50.00.
