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Hola amigo! Greetings from Costa Rica! 😊 Thanks for sharing these videos. I simply love al these stuff! I have recently started to repair an old drum set I have. And I was wondering, do you recommend using any oil inside the shells?

Cleaning vinagre is algo a great help to wash away the staining on the hardware.

Hi. Just had to refer back to this because my long spade is too long for my 20 bd.

Sections of the video keep repeating.

Ludwig now has the original 18 strand metal end snares agin.

If you're looking to get rid of that Tama 6.5x14 maple snare, let me know. I had that in Piano black 20 years ago. Loved it.

Longer format! You should have videoed opening your wife's sauce can lol Thanks!

Amazing tips sir

The big difference between the P83 and the P85 is that the front piece on the P85 is made of chromed pot metal while the P83 is all steel. On my pre-serial badged Jazz Festival - see th-cam.com/video/mt6O2IdKXZA/w-d-xo.htmlsi=TbRX12PBmHGYaJ7I - I have an early P83 with the letters “WFL” inside a keystone shape rather than the “Ludwig” in script. I have a script-lettered P83 on another drum and a later P83 with “ludwig” in the modern letters. I of course also have a pot metal P85 on a mid-70’s Acrolite, too. The black face on that P85 slide is actually a sticker, not black enamel. I wish it were enamel but it isn’t, and if anyone has proof positive that any of those blackface P85’s were black enamel, please reply.

That's a sweety!

I have a 1967/68 ... I can not find replacement snares to save my life... Ludwig changed the snares after 1969... Ludwig offers replacement snares but they Do Not Fit pre 1969.. Can you help me find some? Thank you for your time.. Have a blessed day..

After making this repair, how long should you realistically expect the glue to hold up before the drum needs replaced?

Thank you sir! I spent a fruitless evening trying to figure out how it went back in. Turns out the problem was that the mainspring had kicked out of the notch so that the breech block would not lower enough to extract or feed a cartridge on a .32 Long.

Great Video !! Does Remo still Make Rototom's ?

Beautiful drum!! And great restoration!

Nice work.

Bruce, another beautiful job on a beautiful drum! I love watching your videos with a cup of good coffee in the morning. I wish you would have included the clean up of the the COB hoops even though you have shown it in other videos. I've restored a bunch of old drums over the years and generally they turned out very nice. I've always cleaned or replaced the mounting screws and now I regret it--I should have done it your way. I'm 75 and it is still a matter of live and learn. Thanks Bruce, keep 'em coming.

Three thumbs up! Great job Bruce.

Beautiful drum, great job as always Bruce! I used scrubbing bubbles worked it in with a little brush like you did. Several ways to skin a cat as they say.

Have you done a video on how to straighten out snare wires? Great content. Nice job.

That is a really beautiful Camco drum...and also, apparently, an unloved Camco drum. A loved drum gets played...and that drum was very rarely played. The previous owner may have kept it well...but didn't play it. Hopefully, now that you have breathed some new life into it, someone will love it and play it like it was made to be played.

Wow! That's one beautiful drum now, I've been more and more curious about CAMCO drum's recently, I'd heard about them years back but never really took notice. I'm taking notice now, after watching a few of your videos I'm becoming more interested in the quality, which is obviously very high and considering the other manufacturers of the day, they appear on another level. It's like when Premier drums made their chrome over aluminium shell's, they were made flawlessly and lasted really well, something other manufacturers didn't really master. Thanks for the brilliant video.

Love it!

I have this pedal. The spring adjustment just spins and doesn't adjust the spring tension. Any ideas?

Glad to see you had as much fun as I did messing with this.

My accent throw off on the vice it would get wedge on the bottom so I bought some gorilla glue and put a washer and glued it with my 4” c clamp and left it overnight hopefully it works

These I may have thrown away! Great job Bruce and great teaching as usual. Did you make it to the Chicago drum show?

I would take either of the two Eddie Knight drums. I took lessons from Eddie when I was younger. The first set I ever played was the gold moire set that was in his studio. Thank you for the shout out to Eddie. He was a great guy. He played my wedding. and my mm's prom. Eddie passed in August of 2021. He is dearly missed by his friends and students, which I am proud to say, I was both. He had an encyclopedic knowledge of all drum brands, but he was a Camco expert. He was close friends with George and Elsie Way and had a lot of George's stuff. His collection was museum quality. Your video made me very nostalgic. Thank you for the memories.

Thanks for sharing, you helped me figure out how to clamp my 12" tom that gas a similar crack like that last one you did. It was from a drop when I just had got the kit. I remember that I searched for any damages and couldn't find any at first. Only much later, when I was disassembling the drum for an overhaul, I found the crack and the reason why that particular tom was giving me such a hard time to tune...! Well, you live, you learn...

Those black rubber rounds look like a drum head practice pad/sound deadening device? Or I may be wrong. Anyhow, cheers 🎉 mate.

The throw off handle on the p85 looks a little longer than the p83. I have a old WFL snare drum with the p83. It needs the correct throw off handle. Mine is straight and doesn't have a bend in it to accommodate the head hoop sticking out into it. My drum is 5.5" tall and I think maybe someone swapped a strainer from a 6.5" tall drum, maybe? However I need to buy just a handle and i would give this one in return, as well. Any recommendations on a good source for one? I need it because it is binding badly from having gotten bent over the years from that poor clearance of the head hoop

Those turned out great Bruce! Good for another 50+ years!

Great restore work, Let that set sing with some coated Ambassador heads, 60s 3 ply sing with them.

I sure think something like this would be so much fun to attend. Thank you for taking us along with you.❤️🙏❤️🙏❤️

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Wish we had a (Drum swap meet) here somewhere. I’d be there first, too! Thanks for the video.

Love your content, keep it coming!! I wanted to ask, what size staples are you using in the senco model J, to secure the inlay ends?

such a unique sounding kit, definitely one of the best Ludwig kits money can buy

I'll be saving this video. Many thanks!

That's a beuatifull Drum Set, Indeed. I'm considering in buy me a GRETSCH Renegade in Blue Mist Color, very similiar as this drum kit

Beautiful drum set, very nice indeed, they'd cost an arm and leg over here in the UK, so I'm playing more modern drums. A Drum Craft maple 7 piece including 14x6.5" snare. It's a great set... not that vintage Ludwig or Gretsch sound but still very nice indeed. I also own a couple of other sets, a MIJ Pearl GLX and MIJ DX Professional, in Cherry Wood stain with lacquered shells, interiors lacquered as well, it's another amazing sounding set, has 45° cut bearing edges so really let's you take it easy and get familiar with finger grip techniques. This is an amazing channel, I love your approach to restoring these old classics, it's great to watch and reassuring in a way, what with all of the cancel culture and everything being disposable, your atypical capitalism gone wrong model. Keep up the good work. 👍

Wow hahaha that was a great find. ☘️

nice job bruce, i sent you a text about those drums you were looking for not sure if that was a landline or not? if i see anything i'll shoot you an email!

Something good on a Monday. Thanks.

Thank you for sharing this informative tutorial with all of us. It was not only very informative, but it was also very entertaining.❤️🙏👏❤️🙏👏❤️

✨56 was a good year! Ha Ha… I was born. You too? Thanks for the video!!✨ ((Great drum, by the way)) I’m a sucker for old Ludwig and Slingerland… plus Gretsch. Ok… almost anything vintage that’s good. 😂🤣😂🤣

I'm glad I found this video. I have a 50s Gretsch marching snare that I'm refinishing as part of a single tension "Levon" kit. I wasnt sure if I should route the edges or do them by hand. I already filled in the snare beds with kwikwood and flattened the edges. I tell pretty confident now about doing this by hand.

That was remarkable. Thanks.

Is it wrong, or is there any disadvantage of using wood filler to fill holes versus dowel plugs? My shells are bare right now. I removed the wrap and sanded them so far. Thank you!!!

Troy, just hold the clamp. Haha. Great job guys; really dig watching the restoration work.