Yes! a whole kit that looks like this with the B/O badge etc...Club Date style! I'd want one...Mind Blowi

Ooooh....Club Dates would keep the whole bow-tie lug look going. I like that. Good idea!

-Jeff

isn't there a picture of a one-off in the ludwig book?

yes, I think you're right on that, in rob cook's book.

mike

The prototype kit picture and small details are on page 184 of the Ludwig book by Rob Cook.

Trick Drums are aluminum, I've heard good things about them.

expensive too. but yes I've heard good things about them also. http://www.trickdrums.com/drums.html

The Trick snare I owned was thick. Much thicker than anything Ludwig would have put out. I would LOVE to play a Ludalloy kit. That would be slick. I wonder if this is a feasible / possibility. Would Ludwigs supplier (or Ludwig if they make them) consider doing a special order???

It may have looked cool, but with all due respect the Acrolite snare sounds terrible. The only Ludwig snare in my collection that I ever got rid of.......I guess I could have kept it, just for the sake of having one.....but man, to me it sounded awful....

Hmmmm, I get you. But can I say that the great thing about this vintage game is variables. My particular Vintage 60's Acro with it's keystone badge is incredible. It has a brittle sound that conveys itself so wonderfully over the mics in a studio that it can't be touched by anything else. It needs a light touch but man that thing sounds just beautiful. That snare has earn't me a packet of respect and dosh too. Can't say fairer than that!

Maybe your particular Acro was bad but mine is gold dust. So I'm sorry but Acros rule. Sorry mate.