many of the early 60's bass drums had natural interiors. some of those same drums also had maple inner plys as well, beautiful stuff.

mike

wow!!thank you,maybe that is why i get such a great sound,that maple is nice.thank you for your reply!!Excited

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I have a 62 Lud. SBP 22" X 14" Natural maple interior.

The Kick Drum is 20 inches. Its a 1961. I just purchased telescope legs from ebay and they still do not sit on the ground.

Sorry to hear that.

I'll have another look at which legs were used when. Next steps:

[list]Can you provide us with a few photos of your drum and the legs you purchased?

[*]Can you tell us the length of the legs you purchased? I'll measure mine and let you know

[*]Can you measure the diameter of the hole and let us know what that is?

[*]Can you tell us how many lugs there are between the panel which sits on the floor, and the panel where each hole is? A panel just means a section of drum shell between two lugs. (if you don't understand the question I'll try and rephrase plus add illustrations)

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Just thought of a few more things we need to pin this down. How do you know this isn't a marching bass or one for a symphony orchestra? Those don't have the legs at all. The holes could be for some custom made carrier system for a marching bass. The holes could be for some custom made legs which are gone...although I believe from your answers so far it did come with legs...which don't reach the ground like the replacement ones you bought.

Are you able to help us pin this down? Can you provide the auction number so I can see what you bought?

So...

My telescoping legs are 9.5" in length measuring right to the end of the pointed tip. My bass is an 18" not a 20". There is one panel which rests on the floor, and then the telescoping leg is set in the middle of the next panel up on each side. The telescoping leg is a 1303.

I've just been looking at a 1962 catalog and I am seeing an earlier version of the 1305 spur (I showed a post 1962 1305 in my earliest posting) which doesn't use a floor tom mount. The FT mount version obviously wouldn't have a single hole. But the earlier 1305 uses some other mechanism I haven't seen up close so I don't know what the hole pattern is. That could be your single hole. Hopefully somebody else can enlighten us. What I can see is that the early 1305 is bent and the mount for it is on the second panel (and sometimes the third panel by the look of it) not the 1st as the 1303 has. It folds away like the later 1305 as well.

The fix for yours might be to bend the legs, or try and find the correct pre FT mount 1305 spurs.

But to get the best diagnosis we really need the pictures and detailed information from you.