yes, it's a deal!! not seeing in person, you have to make that call, but if all parts and no mods yes buy it!~~~

Freakin no brainer.... the snare is worth 2/3rds of the price.......... or darn close !!

Yes, I saw those too.

22", 13", 14" w/ the snare.

The tom is mounted off the bass drum hoop, not a rail.

Paint is flaking off on the tom & snare.

Some parts are not origional.

Looks like a great players kit, and a good restoration project.

I'll leave it to Kelly if he wants to post pics, it is a good price, he's lowered it since his first listing, so you could likely get an even better deal on them.

Thanks for the input.

I am picking it up on Monday. Nice kit, needs some resto work but it has a jazz fest snare, worth $250 as it sits and a 14" ft worth $175 as it sits, so all in all a nice find.

I'll post pics soon.

Cheers!

-kellyj

Hi all,

Need your input on this kit.

Here's the good stuff; badges, hardware, are in great shape. Shells are in round and the jazz fest snare is nice but flaked and dated stamped Dec.23, 1966. The 14" floor tom sounds amazing but has lots of paint flaking. All the drums have nice baseball bat mufflers in tact.There is just enough flaked off paint and some major bare patches to the wood that this kit warrants some kind of major restoration.

So, what say you? Take off the paint down to the maple shell and refinish in natural maple? Repair the Duco paint job or re-do the Duco paint job, possibly air-brushing in the bare spots? Maybe a re-wrap?

I'm a bit at a loss here. Thanks again for your valued input! electricit

Cheers!

Kellyj

A natural maple clubdate would look pretty cool, and you could always re do the duco if you wanted to bring em back to their original state. Is the hardware nickel?

Mine are in the same shape... I'm gonna re-duco them.

There's a damn good thread at DFO about the process.

Link..........

Some of the hardware is nickle, some is not.

That's a great thread you linked to!

It's looks like I will strip the paint. Kevins are you gonna strip yours? Any suggestions for that?

Cheers!

=kellyj

Nice drums. If you have an electric sander, you might try sanding the paint off first. If it's pretty loose, it should come right off. I painted a set--used a bicycle wheel as a turntable. You can do a great job using spray cans from the hardware store.

It's nice pulling off a new duco paint job, but my second set of ducos look like yours & I'm leavin' them as is--they've got the mojo battle scars, & I like that about them. Here's a shot of my re-painted ones.....marko