Drums in the distance

So, I've been hard at work on this 1968 Ludwig kit. I thought, in the absence of any meaningful posts, that I might put some pics up showing the rack and floor toms. Anyway, here you go ... I'm off to North Carolina to mountain bike for the weekend, so I'll be back next week, hopefully with a completed kit. Wish me luck.

12" rack tom and 16" floor tom
16" floor tom

The finish is Psychedelic Red, if you're wondering. Pretty cool stuff.

Classic Cool

So, I've not been posting as much as I would like. Even though the blog challenge that sparked my flurry of activity is over, I was still hoping it'd be an every-other-day type thing.

It's not going to get any easier now that I have a pretty sweet vintage Ludwig drumset to fix up. The original hardware has some pitting in the chrome and, ideally, I would replace it all. However, I wonder if it wouldn't give the drums a little character to leave the original stuff on there and just clean it up as much as possible. New heads, tension rods and a few missing pieces later, I might just have a drumset resembling these:

Needless to say, I'm a little exicted about how they'll look. I'll post pics of the drums once I have the finished product assembled.