Post photos of your drums
Posted: Wed Sep 01, 2010 1:11 pmPOST REMOVED BY THE AUTHOR
Well, if you insist, and since I was playing with my new digital camera. This is my current home set-up. More pics here
Tumba is an LP Classic as it came from the factory. Segundo and quinto are fiberglassed oak Gon Bops with Buffalo/American Bison heads. I think that they are just a little livelier than similar GBs and prefer them over my LP Classic segundo and Tocal LE quinto, although I'd probably go with that set-up for a more heavily amplified or rock type gig.. The tumba is a bit unmatched in sound and finding a matching GB tumba would make me very happy.
I found them on Ebay almost ten years ago for $250 shipped to my door. They didn't meet reserve and came to an agreement with the seller. The hardware was a mess with mixed lugs that included LP bongo lugs. The quinto's side plates had been moved down and I removed the stand brackets. This left holes which I plugged with oak doweling, and believe it or not, it actually made a discernible difference in the sound, as in plugging the holes made it sound better. Most of the threads on the lugs were in pretty bad shape, so I ran them through dies and they cleaned up nicely. I have a piece of proper diameter thick walled pipe which I am going to make spacers for the lugs with one of these days. The skins, which I assume were original, were also pretty lifeless.