I'm uneducated about this. How can you tell they're refinished?Reverb
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Somebody selling obviously a stripped and refinished Gretsch RB for 8k ??!
what the hell is this guy smoking?![]()
If that was the original finish it would have sold in minutes.8K is completely insane of course, but I'm not so sure that set was stripped and refinished. I'm thinking thats the original finish......of course I could be wrong.
I'm a newbie about this too, but it seems to me that the seam under the badge on the snare drum (4th from last photo) is a giveaway that at least the snare drum was born with a wrapped finish.I'm uneducated about this. How can you tell they're refinished?
If that was the original finish it would have sold in minutes.
Moreat 8K?
his cymbal demos are amazing <3 <3I reached out to him - it is the same guy. He has some great gear!
There was a Gretsch ad in the RB era showing one endorser (I think it was Charlie Persip) with a natural maple kit. Ted Reed has a picture of himself with a natural maple Round Badge set on the cover of one of his drum books and the drummer for the Hawaiian group the Allis (Don Ho's backing group) is shown with a natural maple Gretsch set on the cover of one 1960s album. I suppose that possibly the latter two may have been sets that were stripped (although why would someone do that to a relatively new set of drums?) but much less likely that Gretsch would feature a stripped set in their own ad (listed as "polished maple" finish in the fine print at the bottom). So, while no doubt as rare as the aforementioned unicorn, it does seem that at least one such set did exist before they became more available during the SSB era.If this was the original finish this would be the holy Jesus christ unicorn in pink sparkle. To my knowledge there is no RB kit in a natural gloss finish.
They started with these finishes with SSB
If this was the original finish this would be the holy Jesus christ unicorn in pink sparkle. To my knowledge there is no RB kit in a natural gloss finish.
They started with these finishes with SSB
If it's the same, one of the sellers would have bought the kit and then sold it later as the sellers are located in two different countries. The serial number is only on one bass drum tag (USA) and there is a nick in one of the floor toms above the badge (USA) not present on the other. Maybe that could have happened in shipping. There is also a stain on the top of a bass drum (UK) not on the other.Could this be the same kit......
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