This is a great piece of history.

A restoration preserving the finish is the best idea. IMHO.

Fantastic man.

Want to see it cleaned up.

That finish is so rare.

Never seen it before.

Is it a paint?

Looks like fabric or plastic in the pic.

sa

Thank you. I'm definately preserving this one, scratches and all. The finish is painted on. I don't know how they did this, but it's really cool. The pictures were sent to me by the previous owner. I will have the drum later this week, so I can take some better pictures then.

Cool vintage drum. I agree that clean it up and keep it as original as possible. Neat score!

Thank you. It will look great all cleaned up.

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Hi,

I'm looking for a Victorious Bass Drum Pedal. Is there any help you can give me?

Thank you,

SAZ

I'm not sure how deep I'd go on restoration.....fixing a thing or two back to "as new" and the rest of the drum not being repairable to the same level can lead to an "unbalanced" look.

I have an early 1900s Lyon & Healy marcher that I took too far on the hardware and ended up regrettably removing a 100 years+ of the patina on the shell to wind up with a "maintained" rather than "restored" appearance.

Your drum is a fantastic piece of history, hope she turns out nicely for you!!!

Cool drum! That is the second generation of WFL WWII drums. Prior to the Cecil Strupe design, WFL was using lugs nearly identical to those used on Rolling Bomber drums.

If it were mine, I'd focus on getting it playable again. Then maybe I'd clean it up a little bit (not too deeply), but I wouldn't repaint lugs or anything. If necessary I'd set some elements straight if the're not.

Beatiful drum.

Back in the days there were people specialized in mimicking marble, wood, etc. With paint. It was part of decorator's education, people that had a talent for it, sepcialized and did it all day and all week long (getting even better at it). I guess a guy or woman like that was working for WFL back then,