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Here is my silver sparkle Chicago Drum company (https://chicagodrum.com) kit. Pretty much the standard rock kit and modelled after a vintage Slingerland kit. The previous owner put the slingerland logo on the kick drum, I dont mind. Snare has wood hoops, sounds incredible. 18" 2002 Paiste Crash that matches well with 16" Zildjian K Dark Crash. I really should get a better ride cymbal but its FINE 502 20" Paiste.

My current obsession is this kit- Stop sign badge, Baldwin-era Gretsch kit, weird holes patched with bondo and re-wrapped in pink sparkle. It's got the obnoxious red Remo heads on it. The reso is silver. I decided to embrace my inner dumbass and go all-in.

I am currently patching a matching kick drum to wrap to match so that the kit will be two 24" kicks, 13" rack and 16" floor with matching 6.5 snare. (See the snare drum thread about my feelings about wooden Gretsch snares.)

My mid-life crisis isn't a convertible or an affair, it's adding a second kick drum.

ooh that's purty

Here is Rogers kit I picked up a week and a half ago in the studio last week. 26-14-16-18, in a very nice wrap job someone referred to as "if someone vomited up a Michigan Salad, in a good way"



Here is my usual "show" kit, pieced together Vistalites, 24-13-16


And here is the kit I keep set up at home for recording / practicing, Ludwig Stainless, also 24-13-16, with a 28" Slingerland Marching kick in front to capture some reflective boom

Wowza. I dare someone with a plain jane lookin' kit to post in this thread.

This is my old Gretsch round badge kit. I have two 16" floor toms and two kick drums for it, one 22" and one 24". Once I find and lacquer a round badge 12, I might make it two kits and sell one.

Kind of a tight space but before I put mics back up here is a comedically wide shot of my kit.

1960s Trixon Luxus 20" bass drum and 16" & 13" toms. Gretsch bell brass snare (Emperor head, tuned sort of low).
Older 14" New Beat hi-hats, older 18" Zildjian A crash, 21" Sabian "Groove Ride." Kids' tambourine on the hi-hats.

Here’s my mid ‘70s Ludwig kit in Blue Silk

*double post*

ok, trying to use Imgur here, thanks Ringo for the suggestion.

Anyway, 60s-era (I think '67) Gretsch in Burgundy sparkle. 12/14/20 and the snare that came with it was a 5.5" CoB, not the wooden one that was on a lot of the progressive jazz kits you see. Also it has the post mount and not the rail, which I do use sometimes.

I had it since 96 or 97 and I don't have a band now so it's set up with a bunch of pillows in the kick, deadening rings and low volume cymbals. Yeah yeah, double kick pedal, I know.

Snare here is just a dumb 70s supra. Aside from the aforementioned CoB Gretsch, I also have a wooden RB Gretsch in red sparkle, a noble and cooley aluminum drum and a 6" stave drum I made myself.

If anyone comes across a matching 16x16 floor tom, I'll buy it.

Tidied up our practice space and grabbed a quick photo of my kit.

I bought these maybe 15 or 16 years ago somewhere north of SF, I think San Rafael? Forum legend benadrian drove me up to get them. I think I paid about $400 for the kit - early 60s round badge gretsch stripped and refinished in brown stain.

They were in storage for the better part of a decade while I lived in Chicago, but when I moved to Toronto about 5 years ago I got them fixed up a bit and recovered in this lovely tangerine sparkle.

They sound fantastic, and it’s nice having a “player grade” vintage kit that I’m not too fussed about beating up. I’ve been playing a lot of drums since I moved here and they’ve been such a joy to use.

Snare is a 90s square badge gretsch that came with a kit I had years before that and (regrettably) sold to the drummer internet band at the time. He still has them at least.