These drums look completely fantastic! Your dad is going to LOVE them. What are you doing about a tom mount? You had mentioned that your dad did not like the rail mount.

I went with a completely different bass drum. Like I posted earlier, the 22" WFL was just too bad shape to resurrect. Plus dad always wanted a 24. So I started with a '70's Slingy 24" 5 ply shell, (picture of this shell earlier on this thread), got some Slingy bass hardware and a Setomatic single tom set-up from a forum member. The shell needed some work; wrap removal, lot of extra/incorrect holes & such. But then, (after I busted my butt sanding-off the wrap glue, lol), I found a early 60's, pre-serial # blk/gold Slingerland 24" natural finnish, 3 ply Mahogany concert bass drum on eBay. Completely virgin. I installed a pair of spur mounts on it, but I could not bring myself to drill this nice shell for the Setomatic base. So now the rack tom is getting a RIMS type suspension mount to hang it on a cymbal stand.

That is great. If he doesn't like it you can always add a tom mount. What a great gift for your dad.

Well. Finally got the floor tom shell inner ply repaired. The suspension mount showed-up Friday. Now dad's kit is about completed!

Here are some pics with a few of my cymbals & my '58 RK snare. Dad's got a '62 RK just like it. I'm gonna tune on em a little more and present them to him on Father's Day. I put Ambassador X batters on the toms. I not too impressed :(. I think I gonna try some regular Coated Ambassadors. Man, this 24" bass sounds killer! Evans Coated EQ3 on front and Clear EMAD batter.

Summary: 13” Rack Tom: shell sanded inside & out. Clear shellac inside, Blue-White Marine Pearl wrap outside & bearing edges cut by Precision Drum, (outstanding work!). Cleaned/polished lugs and t-nuts with new felts. Re-Chromed hoops, & tension rods. New stainless repro t-rod washers from JP2 Creations. Re-zinc plated lug mounting screws/washers. Era correct tone control. Gilbralter Suspension mount with Noble/Cooley “Cool Mount”. Clear Diplomat reso & Coated Ambassador X Batter.

16” Floor Tom: Shell sanded inside & out. Took some extra sanding inside to remove most of the dents & scratches from dad packing the rack tom inside. Precision Drum trued the shell for me and repaired the re-rings that where practically falling off. I repaired/reglued the inside ply of almost the entire inner ply that had de-laminated. I then had Precision Drum cut the bearing edges (the lower one was totally beat-up) and install the Blue/White Marine Pearl wrap. Sprayed several coats of Clear Shellac the inside of shell. Lugs & t-nuts cleaned & polished-up. Installed new felts behind springs. NOS cob hoops I got a killer deal on. New stainless repro t-rod washers from JP2 . Re-zinc plated the lug mounting screws/washers. Re-chromed the legs & push-button lugs. Repaired the push-button lugs to hold rock-solid. I used stainless button head screws for push-buttons, (polished-up, they look great). New repro rubber leg tips. Era correct tone control, cleaned-up. Clear Diplomat reso & Coated Ambassador X batter.

24” bass drum: It's a early 60’s, pre-serial #, blk/gold badge concert bass drum I found on Ebay. The virgin 3-ply mahogany natural finish shell was in perfect condition! Took minimum prep before Precision Drum installed Blue/White Marine Pearl wrap. Clear shellac spray coatings on the inside. I installed a pair of spur mounts I acquired from a forum member, they cleaned-up real nice. The hardware was pretty beat-up and the hoops did not have inlay grooves. So, I bought a pair of new maple hoops w/grooves from Precision, sanded & painted them and installed the BWMP inlays myself. I re-chromed the lugs, claws & t-handle rods. Cleaned/polished the t-nuts. Re-zinc plated the lugs mounting screws. New stainless repro t-rod washers from JP2. I installed the personalized shield decal (dad’s initials of course) & repro “Slingerland” logo on the reso head. I also installed dad’s rechromed Slingy cymbal mount from his old WFL bass drum. I'll post some more pics in a couple of weeks when I get em set-up at dad's house.

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Excellent work, your Dads drums look stunning! Gonna' be a memorable Father's Day for sure. BTW is that Paiste in the pic one of those 24" pies? (no pepperoni)

Fantastic! Very, very nice.

Yeah, it's a fairly new 24" Paiste Rude Mega Ride. It's got a realy nice defined ping that cuts through the mix with minimum wash. Helluva bell too!

Your dad is going to be blown away. You did an amazing and very meticulous job. Very impressive. Congratulations!

Welcome every one, totally new to this great site and this is my first post, about to become a proud daddy of my first Slingerland kit, due this thursday although mummy didnt want any new additions. Im sure she will grow to loving it, (I Hope) will send pictures as soon as possible to all.