Sweet!!! I really like them.....

A beautiful kit...whether Light Blue or Green! The chrome looks excellent! Enjoy your Slingies!

Thanks. Yeah, I love this kit. It's my first vintage set and I can hardly think of any other kit (brand, sizes, wrap, you name it ...) I'd rather have. I did a lot of research into vintage drums before I got this kit and I think I chose well. Spent a LONG time cleaning and polishing them recently too. Whoa, that's a lotta work. Don't plan on doing that again anytime soon.

whoa, seems completely impossible to me that this kit "sounds better than it looks".

love "greened" light blue or midnight blue sets. I own a 50s gretsch mb "silver-emerald green" RB kit, with no blue left (except under the hardware). it looks like a ***el under light. I wonder what your set looks like on stage.

drum companies should look at pics like this and get a gleaming, quality-speaking, forever-lasting, deep drum finish for their top products *exactly* like this, but I doubt they can - seems to be tougher than rocket science.

you´ve chosen well, really!

regards, twotone from bavaria, germany.

hey dude awsome slings. and im sure that you spent a lot of time getting the kit to look like that. do you still have the rail tom consolett that went with the kit. with or with out it the virgin look looks hot congrats on your labour

Lookin' good DD.............!!!

This is one of my favorite colors, that never was!! I love the way these fade or turn to this color, I'm after a kit just like yours here in my area! Hey are you going to reinstall the rail mount?

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drum companies should look at pics like this and get a gleaming, quality-speaking, forever-lasting, deep drum finish for their top products *exactly* like this, but I doubt they can - seems to be tougher than rocket science.

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Absolutely two-tone. I seem to remember a recent posting where someone mentioned how uninteresting most modern day finishes are, a solid colour, for example. Sure, some might look good or even great, but, in my opinion, lack the character that these old kits have.

I always do a double take when I see a cool vintage-looking wrap or finish but hardly even notice a kit with a modern-day finish. I'm sure a lot of us are in the same boat and the way old kits look is probably partly why we're all a part of this forum. I walk into a drum store and the one vintage kit hidden way off in the corner is the only kit that catches my eye out of 50 kits.

And speaking of tougher than rocket science, if so many people are attracted to vintage kits for their thin wood shells and warmth, why don't more modern-drum makers use a similar approach? I had a good look at the shells of my drums when I took them all apart to clean. It really isn't rocket science. It's just wood! Could it be that hard to make a thin drum shell in the year 2010?

Yes, I do have the rail consolette but it's a wee bit wonky so the tom isn't held all that firmly in the tongue and keeps slipping down. So, I just put it in a snare stand for the, uh, photo shoot :-)

For live/studio, I've got the tom on a Rims-mount. Yeah, I fought it as long as I could but the way it looks coolest ain't necessarily the way it sounds best. And I did ultimately get a vintage kit for the sound.

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I always do a double take when I see a cool vintage-looking wrap or finish but hardly even notice a kit with a modern-day finish. I'm sure a lot of us are in the same boat and the way old kits look is probably partly why we're all a part of this forum. I walk into a drum store and the one vintage kit hidden way off in the corner is the only kit that catches my eye out of 50 kits.

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+1

I own an original 1965 oyster black pearl Ludwig Kit, too. In recent years many companys more or less tried to duplicate that colour, Pearl, DW, Ludwig itself - great sounding and expensive drums, but, to me, not even close in appearance. the oyster colours were developed in the mid-50s. why can´t Ludwig really recreate them, as limited editions etc.? They could sell the often missing BOP Jazz Festival snare alone -with the REAL finish- for huge money, and I would buy one. Guitar companys use Computer graphic scans to recreate the look of old zelluloid pickguards - if you look close at it, you can see the pixels.