One of my better deals was this 60s era Supra. It was missing the baseball bat muffler which I later found on Ebay. I got the drum for $75. To be honest, I had no idea what it was, other than a Ludwig snare, which you can't ever go wrong on.

I bought a 4 piece fibes with brushed coppar finnish with a slingy COB snare for about 500$.. Not a great deal.. but I still think it was pretty good.

Grabbed a circa 1947-48 BDP RK 26,13,16 and G K solid shell snare with 3 point YESTERDAY for a good price.......

The guy called me up the day before saying he wanted to sell his 82 YO dads drumset.

It came with a 13" Trans Stamp A and another old 11" A that has a chunk out of it......

Has Leedy hi hat and foot pedal,60's Slingerland snare stand.........

Blair

My freshest catch : Ludwig early 80's Red Cortex monster drum set: 7x8,9x10,12x13,13x14,16x16,16x18,16x24 and 16x26 plus 6,5x14 Pointy badge Supraphonic, Zildjian 15" Rock hats, 16" Sabian Vintage thin crash, 18" Zildjian Avedis crash, 21" Zildjian rock ride, plus 2 Speed kings, Ludwig Hercules snare drum stand and 2 no name cymbal stands...all for $300.00...

Well guys, I don't usually talk much about the deals that I scrounge up, but here are a few of my faves over the past few years:

70's Ludwig B/W Badge Rockers kit, the one with the 'Standard' style lugs (12, 13, 16, 22 - red) with hardware - $200

70's Ludwig B/O Pointy Badge (13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 24, 24 - white cortex) + cases, hardware and 6.5" Supra - $550

3 70's Ludwig Supraphonics as one lot (B/O Pointy Badges, 1 pre-serial, 1 8xx xxx, 1 1 2xx xxx) with torn heads and missing a few minor pieces that I happened to have at the ready back home - $80 (I had all 3 tuned and ready to rock that same night!)

22" early 70's Ludwig 3 ply maple marching bass drum (beautiful gold sparkle) - $20

Several orphan Ludwig drums from the 60's and 70's from $0-20.

Cymbals - A huge set of 9 A. Zildjians (Made in Canada) including 14" hats and everything from a 10" splash to 22" ride for free!

I am a home inspector by trade and was in an old man's house and saw in his garage that he had a set of drums and he told me they were his son's from back in the 70's. He was in his late 80's and was a percussionist in an orchestra. He was trying to sell his house so I told him if he ever wanted to sell the drums I would be interested. I looked at a few of them before I left, they were walnut cortex Ludwigs. Not exactly my favorite finish but old Luddies are always good. So a year later I get a call from his son asking if I was still interested, Of course I was and asked how much, he said $500. I went to his house that day, I have a Chevy HHr and it took two loads to transport. So here's what I got, the four piece walnut cortex set, two concert toms(mahogany cortex), complete set of ludwig stands, speedking pedal, 40's field snare, three hardshell rolling stand case, full set of hardshell cases, and the last case I opened was a 70's black beauty snare. I thought I had died and gone to heaven.

My first-ever vintage purchase approx. 10 yrs ago was a 1968 Blue sparkle

Ludwig set 2-22", 12,13,16 with 4 zildjians, ludwig hi-hat stand and 2

cymbal stands. These all cleaned-up very well. Also have a '65 S-land

Champaigne sparke kit 22-13-20(floor) witha matching champ. 3-ply snare.

My dad purchased these from original owner. Stiil on the prowl for the

Rogers set to finish my collection-all sets from the 60's.

My nearest Music Go Round has had this 6x14 COB Slingerland snare for quite a while. So I figured I have nothing to lose by trying some good old fashioned haggeling. (begging) Cool Dude.

I had a couple old no name snare stand's to trade. When all was said and done. I swindeled it for $85.00.Excited

So....I had to post this one I got today. It needs work, but it's playable now. Just wish someone didn't add the two-tom post on top of a rail mount, but what the heck.

I recently bought a no name 18" floor tom for 30 buck's a parts drum . when i took the top head off there was 2 envelopes taped to the interior of the shell one of the envelopes had 120 in old canadian 5 and 10's and the ohter envelope had a bag of old dried up weed in it . it seems to me that guy who had these drum's wasent a very good buissnes man he got high and forgot about his stash . i wish these things happen all the time