by roberthelpus » Thu May 23, 2013 2:06 pm
With the street price looking like $750 to $900.
I'm just a cheapskate, and spoiled. I got my pair off of ebay for $250 shipped. They looked ugly and no one wanted to bid on them while some nicer looking drums got the attention and $$$. Scarred shells, with mismatched hardware, and worn chrome on the rims. Different lugs on the same drum. Different size nuts on the same drum. Side plates lowered 1.5" on the quinto with the original holes open along with an LP stand bracket which I removed - I was really surprised how filling those small holes with oak doweling improved the sound. Had to run all of the lugs through dies to clean up the threads and new nuts. New American Bison heads. Just a few days ago I made some spacers or the lugs out of some pipe and now the lugs don't hang up like they used to so tuning is easier.
They're still ugly and I love them.