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Do You Trust L Arms?? Last viewed: 15 hours ago

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I've found the gretsch arm to hold securely so far, but i'm using pretty light cymbals.

Posted on 13 years ago
#11
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From evan

This is the best solution I've seen to secure your L arm 100%, without drilling.

I am still looking for a old floor tom leg to use in this way but instead of a straight leg I want to reshape one to L shape and then it goes through my lugwig mount on over to the bass drum rim mount and so it is held in two places and will never move/// I use a custom Z ride and it is a heavy mother but it is loud and cuts through the mix anywhere..

Posted on 13 years ago
#12
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I hooked a small chain from the rail consollet to the arm to keep it from rolling over,until I noticed that Ludwig put a small clamp that locks into the mount itself.To prevent rolling over.They use the straight (cheap)knurl now and they had a slippage problem. The little clamp solved that. This a a new Vintage looking mount and arm I got from Ludwig a few years ago.The mount has a notch in it so the clamps male part can fit in it and the arm will not roll.On your mount you could notch it out and buy one of these clamps to work on your set. Good luck MME

I play a sabian 20" xs ride and have had no problems ....

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Posted on 13 years ago
#13
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From Mike T

I am still looking for a old floor tom leg to use in this way but instead of a straight leg I want to reshape one to L shape and then it goes through my lugwig mount on over to the bass drum rim mount and so it is held in two places and will never move/// I use a custom Z ride and it is a heavy mother but it is loud and cuts through the mix anywhere..

Mike,is this what you are looking for?I had a friend add this tilter to a Clubdate straight arm.Works great too.

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??'s Kingston-MIJ--3piece kit/Pearl snare
many vintage pedals,cymbals,parts,ect,ect
Posted on 13 years ago
#14
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u know i use my l arm and it moves a little but i only use a 18 on it and a sweet 16 for crash so no issues im trying a sleeve to help hold it in place

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Posted on 13 years ago
#15
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This is the only L-Arm I trust! George Way did it right and I'm surprised it never caught on. I have a Camco kit with an L-Arm bracket but I still use my GW hoop mounted L-Arm instead, it's rock solid!

[IMG]http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x246/dolfan54/George%20Way/Untitled15.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://i185.photobucket.com/albums/x246/dolfan54/Camco%20Oaklawn/IMG_0588-1.jpg[/IMG]

1957 George Way BDP 26" concert bass drum
1959 George Way BDP 22/12/16 w/ 5.5x14
1959 George Way Green Sparkle 22/12/16 w/5.5x14
1961 George Way Blue Sparkle 20/12/15
1961 George Way Jelly Bean 20/12/14 w/4.5x14
1960’s Camco Oaklawn Champagne 20/12/14/16w/5x14
1971-73 Camco Chanute Walnut 24/14/18 w/5x14 COB
Posted on 13 years ago
#16
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From MME

Mike,is this what you are looking for?I had a friend add this tilter to a Clubdate straight arm.Works great too.

Not exactly what I am looking for is a L shaped floor tom leg with the long side running thru my ludwig mount and over to either the front bass drum rim or the back rim there I will put a rim mount clamp so that that l arm will go thru both my bass drum mount and the rim mount then i can put on the other half of the cymbal mount to this L arm thus my L arm is held in two places does this make sense I will try and take a pic or two...

Posted on 13 years ago
#17
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here I mocked this up of course the part I want to make would have a longer upright but you will get the idea now i hope...

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v147/Magwa/DSC0331250.jpg[/IMG]

[IMG]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v147/Magwa/DSC0331150.jpg[/IMG]

Posted on 13 years ago
#18
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Pictures!!!!! I now understand! MM

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Posted on 13 years ago
#19
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THIS looks really sturdy. I think I'd be comfy with this on my Gretsch set. Altho it looks pretty modern and not Retro.....its the middle item.

http://www.repercussions.org/larms.html

Posted on 13 years ago
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