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Ok boys and girls, it's time to hear your best guess on these extra lug holes as the owner and myself absolutely do not see eye to eye on the what and why.
A friend of mine picked up this early 70's Slingerland set and discovered these extra lug holes under the orgional bass drum lugs. You can clearly see the inside hole of the orgional Sound King lug has been crudly roughed out larger and someone drilled a new hole in the center for a shorter lug. THEN they sloppily filled the new hole with putty. The outside factory hole appears to be unmodified.
Because there is no discoloration around a small lug profile (only around the larger factory profile), he is convinced someone at the factory drilled the drum for tom lugs, then realizing the mistake, drilled it for the correct size and filled the wrong holes with putty. I say no way, that was done by a future owner due to the inside or inner factory hole being enlarged and the sloppy putty. No factory worker was going to spend that much time and energy covering up a mistake when there were dozens of shells at thier disposal.
While I am an admitted Slingerland fan boy, I also acknowledge that they did not have the tightest of quality control standards. HOWEVER, I say not only would they not have made that mistake in the first place, if they did, they would have simply tossed the shell and grabbed another.
I told him I consider myself a Slingerland expert... but only in the things I know. The problem being I know very little! So I asked for a few pics and said I would post them here, asking the opnion of true experts.
How did these middle holes get here.... at the factory (booooo) or later, added for a smaller lug (which I admit makes no sense) by a future owner (yeah!). Weigh in with your thoughts and I will share with my friend.
A friend of mine picked up this early 70's Slingerland set and discovered these extra lug holes under the orgional bass drum lugs. You can clearly see the inside hole of the orgional Sound King lug has been crudly roughed out larger and someone drilled a new hole in the center for a shorter lug. THEN they sloppily filled the new hole with putty. The outside factory hole appears to be unmodified.
Because there is no discoloration around a small lug profile (only around the larger factory profile), he is convinced someone at the factory drilled the drum for tom lugs, then realizing the mistake, drilled it for the correct size and filled the wrong holes with putty. I say no way, that was done by a future owner due to the inside or inner factory hole being enlarged and the sloppy putty. No factory worker was going to spend that much time and energy covering up a mistake when there were dozens of shells at thier disposal.
While I am an admitted Slingerland fan boy, I also acknowledge that they did not have the tightest of quality control standards. HOWEVER, I say not only would they not have made that mistake in the first place, if they did, they would have simply tossed the shell and grabbed another.
I told him I consider myself a Slingerland expert... but only in the things I know. The problem being I know very little! So I asked for a few pics and said I would post them here, asking the opnion of true experts.
How did these middle holes get here.... at the factory (booooo) or later, added for a smaller lug (which I admit makes no sense) by a future owner (yeah!). Weigh in with your thoughts and I will share with my friend.
