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I’d love to own this kit.

Awesome Collection! so glad I found your channel!

Once in a lifetime find! thanks for sharing!

Such Awesome Tips in your videos, I would never have thought of sanding those hoop strips smooth like that!

This is such a great video! All your videos on the resto of this kit are the best I have found on these processes on TH-cam!

Great video, Shawn! I'm only now really getting my hand 'dirty' so to speak, with routing my own edges, and it's going great! This is a wonderful tutorial. Slow and steady, and the results are amazing. Thanks so much for sharing! (Great idea with the pencil, BTW!).

Great cave, and an awesome collection. Looks like a fun room!

$600 for those?! These are beautiful warm sounding drums. I have 2 large kits of these. Love them!!

Hey, a little Come Together. Nice!

Man that's just crazy original! Heads???? So cool!

Hey Shawn, Believe I told you in a comment on one of your other videos that I had those original ones long time ago. I was 10, now 66. Very close to the first real drums I ever had. They are just beautiful and what memories. Got'm for Christmas and hardly messed with any other presents I got. Kept them until Ludwig came out with the Vista Lites. I traded my Ringo Black Oyster Pearl ones for blue Vista's trying to go John Bonham style. Wish I knew now what I didn't really know then for sure! Even my local music store guy seemed to try to talk me out of the trade with him. I should have listened or even better, just kept them and bought the Vista's outright. Dang it man! I've even thought seriously on re-wrapping the Ludwigs I have now with Black Oyster Pearl. But...Just wouldn't be the same. You sure find the most cool stuff. I love these vids! Well, at least I've never bought or traded for anything but Ludwigs but absolutyly love all the other vintage brands you come up with. My Favorites! Keep the Beat goin' brother Shawn!

Kit sounds good

This entire kit sounds amazing brother!! Buying one tmr

May I ask what snare and hats you are using? I’d assume supraphonic 6.5 ? And also how do you have your bass drum tuned? Felt strip ?

That sounds absolutely mighty! Liberty deVito was another drummer using these drums! Loved his sound on the Billy Joel tracks, he absolutely hammered his drums

Great kit! Are the edges the same as your RCs?

Thanks!

Awesome vid man!

Watching this because a storage company lost parts of my black oyster kit. 😭😭

Man these are cool! You Lucky Dog You! HA! Keep it up brother.

This is an example of making something [difficult] look easy. This is not an easy process, at all. So much potential for failure. You do great work!

The club date bass drum and the downbeat floor tom are my favourites

Hoops you had work nice on the bass. Very cool.

I had the blue vista lites. 5 piece back in 70s. Loved them. Didn't have the snare but I had a Ludwig Supraphonic. Still have and use that snare. Been through 3 sets of Ludwigs with the same snare. Got the Ludwig Black Oyster Pearl when I was about 10. Ringo Starr style. I see the same ones on Reverb for $16,500. You really got something there with those vista lites. Very, very nice. I'm Jealous LOL! Nice Find!

A treasure hunt.

I'm currently playing a '80 Ludwig 6-ply 13,16,18,22 and a '67 LM400. Best kit I've played and it's not even close.

Baba O Reily??

I bought from eBay a 12x11 , 13x12 Toms and a 16x16 floor tom .All Maple Classics with Keystone badges some kind of Honey Maple finish, very beautiful. The ideea was to make a bebop kit and it came out pretty nice. I converted the floor Tom to bass drum and 13x12 to floor Tom .Now I’m thinking to cut the 12x11 to shallower size but I think it will lose value if I will cut it. Personally I don’t like bigger drums. What do you think? It’s worth it to cut down?

I found a vintage pre serial club date 13x9 tom that was wrapped in a God awful fake marble plastic linoleum type of wrap used for furniture, and it was easy to remove cause the glue was dry and brittle. Lo and behold, underneath that crappy wrap, was the perfectly preserved original blue sparkle, to match my set of orphans, which is a blue sparkle set ! What were the chances ??? The problem now, and I could just smack the imbecile who double wrapped this beautiful drum, is removing the glue residue on the wrap, without damaging the wrap. I'm in Canada, and some of the great products you use are not available here in my hometown, so I was wondering if you could help me with what type of product to use to remove this excess glue residue. I'm a custodian for a high school, so I've got access to many heavy duty cleaning, stripping , and restoring products. The Goo Gone I'm using is taking forever to remove the glue. I also used a degreaser/cleaner product from work which seems to work better, but still not sufficient enough to remove it with ease. Any thoughts or info on what I can use would be greatly appreciated. Great job on the drums as always, Sean !👍

Come on, man ! That's insane !!! Beautiful job 👍👍

So you used sandpaper on the edges and scratched the wrap on the edges 🤷‍♂️

Great to see such a nice kit come back to life, really enjoy your work and dedication!

my favorite Ludwig model

I could see this being a Pink Floyd cover kit too, Nick Mason style! It sure looks like two size bass drums like he uses..

The CX series ..it as good as dw...the shells to me sound better...more money doesn't equal the sound your looking for...👌

Shawn possibly use that 14" floor tom as a tom...then get another 16 floor!!!!! I got 2 sets of these and we're 350$ each..and the 14 in middle of bassdrums just a thought and Its badass!!!!!💥🤙👌⭐️

I bought 2 separately 24" bassdrums...these are highly sought after no longer made...love em!!!!!!!!

These drums are designed to be hit. 30% louder than any kits produced. However they are difficult to tune. Phil Collins did well with them. Really its a not a studio kit. Its for live playing and then its a pro kit that delivers.

Great find! Lucky you!

Very Nice

I would guess material is not cheap. Not enough to mess up.

Man! I thought about re-wrapping my Ludwigs. Till I saw what it actually takes. I could screw that up real easy. I'll definitely get a pro! I'd like to know more dude.

Great story and great find

Slingerland tom mounts inspired Yamaha's tom mounts for sure. Yamaha tom mounts are my favorite to this day. By the way. I just received a very minty 5 piece chrome Slingerland kit! My fist "vintage" drum kit. I also found a chrome 14 inch shell only tom. It was fun gathering up all the hardware to restore it.

Dang! Sounded like him to me I'm just saying. Awesome set and sounds great! Thank you!

Absolute Beautiful set! Funny thing is as soon as I saw your set the first thing I thought was Triumph at the US Festival !Crazy

Shawn. Great snare you got there. I live in Dracut Ma and would love to come to your cave. Talk drums and hang. Keep up the great videos.

Just Amazing! the story and everything!!

Shawn, I forgot to ask, where did you find this kit? It's a Fibes, which is a rare kit and a Vistalite, to boot. With the amount of dirt, I guess it was in some kind of a garage. Also, it's got a matching snare and second floor tom as well. Overall nice find and again, great job.

That’s as cool as it gets right Shawn, very nice👍