My favorite snare drum is what I'd guess to be a DIY stained & varnished no-badge wooden shell snare from a sidewalk sale at Explorer's Percussion in KCMO. Always liked its warm sound. The hoops were badly corroded when I bought it, so after a couple decades I have decided to order brass colored 2.3mm hoops from Drumfactorydirect. I've disassembled the shell and notice significant warping of the bearing edge and outer shell at the snare throw-off. The shell moves under finger pressure, so the plys have obviously separated. Is it worth repairing? I'd guess I would inject wood glue through a syringe needle to readhere the layers. Not sure how the bearing edge would be fixed. At this point I could either order a new wood shell (saw them on Drumfactorydirect) and build a new drum, or just throw the hoops on anyway and play it til it completely falls apart in another forty years!
While I'm here, are these lugs recognizable to anyone? They look pretty generic to me: