My Kits aren't vintage, but my current two favourite metal snares are.... Ludwig '72 400, and '79 402. My other current snares are a solid shell highwood, and a 3ply modern vintage Highwood.
I just went there website, Very cool looking drums does he make his own shells?
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[Attachment: 23500] Hello fellow drum junkies...YAY!!!...Im back just to show off this little wopper i have been playing out here in the City of Angeles...very nice 6.5 matching re-wrap...i wish i had scored from maxwell drums...but another snagged it before i could...anyone on the forum??? i wanna trade if so...(snares that is...these pre-ringo WFL's stay with me!!!)...nice fat warm tubby tones here...my new "go to" kit...YAY!!!
22", 13", 16" Ludwig Standard 68 professionally refinished in lacquer. Removed the original blue astro wrap, as it was way trashed.
5.5" WFL 57 snare.
20" k custom medium ride
15" Paiste Giant Beat hats
16" k custom dark crash
17" A custom crash
DW 9000 pedal
Don't think I will ever need anything else......but always looking.
I use three, one is my 1979 Ludwig Supra 6.5" x 14" Black Beauty (that I bought new) and the other is a mint 80's Supra 6.5" x 14". I have a 70's Supra 6.5" x 14" to use with a 6 year old Yamaha kit that I gig with. I also have a late 60's Rogers Dynasonic 5" x 14" that I used to play back in the early 70's with my Ludwig Black Panthers, back in the 70's, but I bought a 1967/68 Rogers Londoner WMP kit to go with that snare now. I don't take my vintage Ludwig or Rogers kits to gigs, at least not in the cold months. It's hard to beat... the Ludwig snares for the most part IMHO.
