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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 :)
9 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.
9 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...
9 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...
9 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
9 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
9 years agoJIMMY PRATT mute install?
From BuddyLudwig...
9 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...
9 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....
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 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...
9 years ago