Greetings and congratulations on owning the finest brand of drums on the planet....

Ditto, as per Antipodes.

Congrats on your first vintage drum kit and you picked a great one to start with.Nice to have you with us on the forum ! Enjoy that kit...

Wayne

Really hard to date Camco drums in general. But you've got a great kit from the most desirable era of Camco. Congrats on a beauty!

One more thing to point out. This is yet another 24" Oaklawn bass drum that has no re-rings. Now it's got me thinking. Oaklawn 24" bass drums are very rare and hard to come by to begin with so not many examples to compare with. Did Oaklawn decide to not put re-rings in drums bigger than 22"? Does anyone here have a 24" Oaklawn with re-rings? The plot thickens . . . .

A good change? Ballistic heavy duty hardware on ultra thin light weight shells just doesn't fit...They sold for a giveaway price so others probably disagree as well. Camco hardware was Machined, just like the heyday of Roger's and when tightened equally on both sides of the BD mount, the stock hardware would hold easily without slippage. It's only when one side is slightly over or under and not equally tightened is when they slip. I call it the 10 percent rule...lol...

The only Camco Oaklawn 24" I've had (or even seen for that matter) had glue rings on both ends...and one in the middle because it was 18"s deep and they stuck two shells together to get the depth. But that was also late 60s or early 70s when the first generation of players who'd grown up with rock were starting to get kits.

Wouldn't surprise me if earlier they had some technical issues or just presumed a 24" was more likely to be an orchestral drum than a trap drum so didn't bother. As ever with Camco, mucho surmise.

mjnest, the kit shouldn't require that much maintenance. A wood finish like that will come up very nicely using old school furniture polish and a couple of rags. If you want to get fancy, you can use beeswax (furniture grade) with 0000 super fine steel wool. Gently work it in using a circular motion...polish off with a clean cloth. This extremely fine abrasive will knock out some of the minor scratches (don't use anything coarser than 0000 though).

A creamy mixture of bicarb of soda and dishwashing liquid will clean up most of your chrome. The lug innards are pretty much set and forget but, if you're going into a studio situation, a cotton ball or small amount of felt is worthwhile putting in so the springs don't rattle (though more than likely someone's already done this).

Other than that, can't think of much.

If you hang around these parts long enough, you'll start to develop a purist streak and want to return the drums to their original state (or close to) with the original fittings. Not impossible but can be pricey.

mjnest, just treat them like you would fine furniture and wax or a very small amount of lemon oil is what I used on mine. You take steel wool to that Walnut Stain finish and you'll regret it! You have an extremely rare and amazing sounding bass drum that looks to be in close to mint condition. Most Camco owners have never even seen an Oaklawn 24 and even fewer have accurate summations about them...

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