Hi guys and gals. I'm cfk79 from Ontario. I've been lurking here for a while, and have gained some great knowledge. I've been playing for about 15 years.
A while ago I purchased a swirl vistalite kit in black and white, 12,13,14,15,16,22. The bass was cracked and fixed, there was a chip in the bottom edge of the 15, and there were no spurs, tom mount, or tom legs, and the bottom skin on the 16 fits tight. The price was to good to turn down. I build stave drums, so I thought if the drums were junk, I'd just use the hardware on my own kits. They sounded good to me, so I've played them for a while using snare stands for the toms.
Recently I've decided to try to trade them on local buy and sell sites. I was asking for a 4/5pc quality kit, with or without a snare. It seems like I've insulted some folks. I was was hoping for an $800 kit in the end. Am I way off? That's not that much more than I payed. And one more question, at what point is a vistalite kit considered junk, I'd rather not cannibalize a 35 year old kit, and I was trading them so I could have a ply kit to compare with my staves. I haven't played a lot of different kits and was trying to diversify. Here are some pictures of the damage. The lugs are perfect. The bearing edges are pretty good, they're a bit funky at the seams on some, but they tune fine. I could easily cut new edges, but I was afraid of taking away any value that they had.
So to sum it up, Have I overvalued this kit, and if so, at what point do I part them out. I'm not trying to get rich, I just would rather a ply kit.
