Search
Register
Only Admins can see this message.
Data Transition still in progress. Some functionality may be limited until the process is complete.
Processing Attachment, Gallery - 189.38622%

Fibes gurus, a few questions.... Last viewed: 3 hours ago

Posts: 20 Threads: 6

I purchased a 70's Nazareth fibes crystalite kit from a VDF member here that's in route, and I'm wanting to get this kit as close to 100% original as possible.

I am reviewing the Fibes documentation for replacement parts on their site (for reference only), and it shows a few things I'm not sure continued from their early NY/PA days to the Austin days.

1. Did the Nazareth crystalite kits have gaskets in between the shell and lugs/spurs/tom mount? I notice that there is a fibes part number, but the vast majority of older fibes do not appear to have lug gaskets?

2. Did the Nazareth kits have bass drum spur clips? Again, I've seen the newer ATX kits with this feature, but I'm wondering if it was present on the 70's drums.

Any thing else I should be aware of between newer and older Fibes?

Lastly, does anyone on the board have any fibes small parts they'd like to sell?

Posted on 14 years ago
#1
Posts: 1014 Threads: 14

Read a review of the austin fibes in MD,and the bass drum spurs were the same as the earlier fibes,you had to remove spurs and attached them to the clips on the Bd Right?I think that is the way it was thru the corder darwin period also.

Posted on 14 years ago
#2
Posts: 941 Threads: 51

hey there, my Fibes Nazareth crystalite has only a cut-to-fit piece of heavy silver paper between the shell and the lug- not a rubber gasket like the Austin Fibes crystalitesSumo Dude

For info. & live schedule:
www.EricWiegmanndrums.com
*Odery Drums Japan endorser/ representative
*Japan Distributor of Vruk DrumMaster pedals
*D'Addario Japan Evans/Promark/Puresound
*Amedia Cymbals Japan

It's the journey not the destination.
Posted on 14 years ago
#3
Posts: 20 Threads: 6

Thanks for the replies!

I found that the Pre-Austin kits indeed have a silver paperstock gasket, and rubber ones for the tom mounts. Austin era uses rubber gaskets all around.

I also discovered from DF that the clips were available on the Austin kits, not on any previous models. To boot, most drummers typically removed them because they were prone to snagging and damaging the clip itself, or the shell.

I sourced a drumshop in Ohio:

http://www.stebaldrums.com/

Dude has two NOS Fibes Stay-away bumpers for sale, $8.99. I bought me one this AM...

Posted on 14 years ago
#4
  • Share
  • Report
Action Another action
Something else here