Lamontsdad
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14” rack tom:
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Cleaning up an old friend…
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I have one in silver sparkle. What does the inside badge look like?
Lamontsdad
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Same as mine- early Fullerton.
Lamontsdad
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Some drums have different labels. I will show labels for each drum.
shuffle
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Rogers 70s kits with maple/birch shells are magic!
Love em even if I no longer own one.
Rogers envy,!
Love em even if I no longer own one.
Rogers envy,!
cashmanbashman
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I expected pictures of your buddy chained up in the basement so they could not drink or drug. Imagine my surprise when I read the post and it’s a drum!
Lamontsdad
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16” floor tom:
Lamontsdad
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LOL
This is an intervention that needed to happen! These haven’t been played in 27 years! I have two beautiful DW kits, a great sounding Premier concert tom kit, and a very usable PDP kit, but these sounded great even before I could tune a drum! I can’t wait to play these!
Lamontsdad
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18” floor tom before:
Lamontsdad
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Drips with mojo! Did I clean off mojo, patina or just dirt?
JDA
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Dumpy you're going get infected Watch IT
Lamontsdad
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Thoughts whilst cleaning this up: I think they definitely quit using the super tall hoops that Rogers was famous for by the time they got it going in Fullerton. There are a few rims that are in pretty poor shape.
I am also missing a couple of floor tom legs. I may just make this into a player’s kit and forget original parts.
More to come…
I am also missing a couple of floor tom legs. I may just make this into a player’s kit and forget original parts.
More to come…
Lamontsdad
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Played this with a 30+ old bass drum head (bass and 18” floor tom heads didn’t arrive today); yes- in my laundry room LOL
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Lamontsdad
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And yes- these will stay with me!
Lamontsdad
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Found the missing floor tom leg! I will install some resonant floor tom feet. Of course the 18” floor having FOUR legs, I will have to buy THREE sets of the resonant floor tom feet. I discovered the resonant floor tom feet years back, and they DO work as advertised!
Pics needed of the Premier concert tom kit.
Lamontsdad
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Pics needed of the Premier concert tom kit.
I will photograph them by the pool.
Lamontsdad
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Put the 18” floor tom together. The heads started settling in on the 14 and 16 and WOW! This is DEFINITELY worth the effort cleaning these up, even with the bass drum not finished! Why did I wait so long?!?
DBT
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Divine intervention …..
Lamontsdad
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Without going into the long back story, it was divine intervention that I got these back!
