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Manufacturing Years for Vintage Slingerland Drum Set
You nailed it slingerfan. There is a Ludwig tom mounting post on the top center where the badge would have been. The drums are in Austin and I'm in...
4 years agoManufacturing Years for Vintage Slingerland Drum Set
Thanks, Mark. I also thought that this was odd. I hope that some other members can chime in.
4 years agoManufacturing Years for Vintage Slingerland Drum Set
My daughter and son in law have a vintage Slingerland set in Light Blue Pearl (Sky Blue). The 16x16 tom has a black and brass Niles badge #115287. The...
4 years agoRogers WMP Sighting
Dual Vox Cheesemasters!
4 years agoRogers 14" floor tom sale question
Why don't you go for the gold? List it with Sotherby's for a reserve price of $3,000. (sarcasm alert)
4 years agoLudwig Standard Granitone Questions
From BEC...
4 years agoThis is the Display Your Rewrapped Vintage Drums Thread
If I'm remembering correctly, wasn't the "cortex" wrap a countertop laminate suitable for vertical applications?
4 years agoSlingerland 14x14 Green Sparkle
From slingerfan...
4 years agoMy Newest Slingerland Acquisition!
Mark...That little six-lugger Slingerland snare is incredibly clean. You already know that I love good six-lugger snare drums. This Slingy would be at...
4 years agoLudwig Standard Granitone Questions
Rogers used what is known in the paint trade as trunk paint. I don't think that there is any real mojo to the type of paint that any of the drum manuf...
4 years agoLudwig Standard Granitone Questions
I remember reading that Ludwig used plain old white fence paint.
4 years agoSlingerland 14x14 Green Sparkle
Dan.....That Red satin Flame set sounded perfect to me. I'm trying to remember what I traded for with Bobby at the Drum Farm. He and I have had severa...
4 years agoSlingerland 14x14 Green Sparkle
I think that I asked you before if that ten-lug bass drum was a 14x20. If it was/is a 20" ten-lug bass drum, that was once my drum set. I don't have s...
4 years agoTWO RARE 1940s-50s SLINGERLAND 4x13 "BE BOP" RADIO KINGS
I know that the wrap on mine is new, and the shell may be unoriginal. But all of the metal parts seem to be correct and original. Whatever the case, t...
4 years agoTWO RARE 1940s-50s SLINGERLAND 4x13 "BE BOP" RADIO KINGS
Here's the 4x13 Radio King snare drum given to me as a retirement gift by the owner and his staff at Rockin Robin in Houston after being their Fender...
4 years ago