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Blue Oyster - '60s Ludwig Kit Last viewed: 9 hours ago

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Hey all,

I am new to the forum but I am glad I found this fantastic resource.

I have been a drumming for the past 15 years or so.

Anyway, I recently rescued a '60s Ludwig Blue Oyster Pearl downbeat(?) from my friend's basement crawlspace. He was going to just throw it out:eek: (Long story). So, I was hoping all you experts could clue me in with what I have here.

Here are some specs:

20" Bass Drum - no date stamp - Serial #162885

9x13 Tom - black stamp May 22, 1965 - Serial #161356

16x16 Floor Tom - red stamp April 21, 1965(?) - Serial #166141

We also found two B&O Badged toms - #1034806 and #1071530 - the mounts on these do not make any sense to me.

What do you think I should do with all this? My goal was to clean up the matching kit and use it but it seems to be missing alot of parts and is pretty beat up. I am missing the L tom mount, the resonant head bass drum hoop and t-rods, and the left spur. What would you add (cymbals, snare) to make it a complete kit? Or would you just sell it off?

On a final note, the floor tom wrap has a crack just below the badge. Some genius decided to put electric tape over it and it seems to have discolored the wrap.:(

Thanks for looking.

OC

Posted on 15 years ago
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More pictures....

Posted on 15 years ago
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Welcome

And if you hold a on a few minutes, Ludwig Dude will be one of the ones to get the best info from, as I said, one of them. There are many guys and gals on here that can get the info for you on these. They are a nice looking lot. Let's have some pics of the wrap all around the rest of the kit so they can get you a good idea of what you have.

I'll give you 50 bucks for them! jk

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Posted on 15 years ago
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more pictures....

Posted on 15 years ago
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sorry for all the pics, just wanted to get these out there....

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Posted on 15 years ago
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Nice kit....seems like you have a matched set from 1965 there with two orphans from the late 70's. Odd that it has a 20" bass drum, as that was not a standard configuration with a 13" and 16" tom, so it must be something ordered that way. The later toms are the newer "bowling ball" blue oyster, either marching tenors or from a Mach series kit. The clip mounts do not look original on those, looks like someone converted it from regular mounts to those....no idea why, as you get less adjustability with that type of mount.

I'd clean the 60's drums up, re-head them and play them. I wouldn't worry about the crack in the wrap on the floor tom, unless its HUGE...lol....missing parts on these are easily sourced from others on the forum or ebay. As far as the 70's orphans....ebay/craigslist them......good re-wrap candidates those are.....bowling ball blue has got to be one of the worst finishes out there.....yuck! Now, the original blue oyster....thats a cool finish x-mas3

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more pictures.....

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Posted on 15 years ago
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This looks pretty good compared to the one I'm restoring at the moment. Mine's in the same finish and is also a 20/13/16 configuration. I got replacement BD hoops from Drummaker.com, badges, consolette rail and L arm and a BB muffler from one ebay seller who happened to have a 13 tom in the same finish, as the original had gone awol.

I've stripped all the hardware off the drums, cleaned and polished the wrap (which has come up looking very nice), cleaned up all the lugs etc. It's now starting to look like a pretty nice set and one that will play well. Now I just have to source a period Supraphonic snare.

I'd say yours will come up even better by the looks of it. It'll actually be very satisfying to see it transformed and it won't take that much work. The parts are suprisingly easy to source...and I live in New Zealand. Nice score.

Andrew

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Posted on 15 years ago
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Yep....restoring a Ludwig kit from the 60's onward is about as easy as restoring a 60's chevy muscle car......huge parts availability.....

Posted on 15 years ago
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There is a guy on here looking for the Bowling Ball finish, and will look at orphans. plexi69 is his handle.

"Ignorance may be overcome through education. Stupidity, however, is a lifelong endeavor." So, educate me, I don't likes bein' ignant...
"I enjoy restoring 60s Japanese "stencil" drums...I can actually afford them..."I rescue the worst of the old valueless drums for disadvantaged Children and gladly accept donations of parts, pieces and orphans, No cockroaches, please...
http://www.youtube.com/user/karstenboy
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Coffee...16613138379603
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