Man these are cool! You Lucky Dog You! HA! Keep it up brother.

This is an example of making something [difficult] look easy. This is not an easy process, at all. So much potential for failure. You do great work!

The club date bass drum and the downbeat floor tom are my favourites

Hoops you had work nice on the bass. Very cool.

I had the blue vista lites. 5 piece back in 70s. Loved them. Didn't have the snare but I had a Ludwig Supraphonic. Still have and use that snare. Been through 3 sets of Ludwigs with the same snare. Got the Ludwig Black Oyster Pearl when I was about 10. Ringo Starr style. I see the same ones on Reverb for $16,500. You really got something there with those vista lites. Very, very nice. I'm Jealous LOL! Nice Find!

A treasure hunt.

I'm currently playing a '80 Ludwig 6-ply 13,16,18,22 and a '67 LM400. Best kit I've played and it's not even close.

Baba O Reily??

I bought from eBay a 12x11 , 13x12 Toms and a 16x16 floor tom .All Maple Classics with Keystone badges some kind of Honey Maple finish, very beautiful. The ideea was to make a bebop kit and it came out pretty nice. I converted the floor Tom to bass drum and 13x12 to floor Tom .Now I’m thinking to cut the 12x11 to shallower size but I think it will lose value if I will cut it. Personally I don’t like bigger drums. What do you think? It’s worth it to cut down?

I found a vintage pre serial club date 13x9 tom that was wrapped in a God awful fake marble plastic linoleum type of wrap used for furniture, and it was easy to remove cause the glue was dry and brittle. Lo and behold, underneath that crappy wrap, was the perfectly preserved original blue sparkle, to match my set of orphans, which is a blue sparkle set ! What were the chances ??? The problem now, and I could just smack the imbecile who double wrapped this beautiful drum, is removing the glue residue on the wrap, without damaging the wrap. I'm in Canada, and some of the great products you use are not available here in my hometown, so I was wondering if you could help me with what type of product to use to remove this excess glue residue. I'm a custodian for a high school, so I've got access to many heavy duty cleaning, stripping , and restoring products. The Goo Gone I'm using is taking forever to remove the glue. I also used a degreaser/cleaner product from work which seems to work better, but still not sufficient enough to remove it with ease. Any thoughts or info on what I can use would be greatly appreciated. Great job on the drums as always, Sean !👍

Come on, man ! That's insane !!! Beautiful job 👍👍

So you used sandpaper on the edges and scratched the wrap on the edges 🤷‍♂️

Great to see such a nice kit come back to life, really enjoy your work and dedication!

my favorite Ludwig model

I could see this being a Pink Floyd cover kit too, Nick Mason style! It sure looks like two size bass drums like he uses..

The CX series ..it as good as dw...the shells to me sound better...more money doesn't equal the sound your looking for...👌

Shawn possibly use that 14" floor tom as a tom...then get another 16 floor!!!!! I got 2 sets of these and we're 350$ each..and the 14 in middle of bassdrums just a thought and Its badass!!!!!💥🤙👌⭐️

I bought 2 separately 24" bassdrums...these are highly sought after no longer made...love em!!!!!!!!

These drums are designed to be hit. 30% louder than any kits produced. However they are difficult to tune. Phil Collins did well with them. Really its a not a studio kit. Its for live playing and then its a pro kit that delivers.

Great find! Lucky you!

Very Nice

I would guess material is not cheap. Not enough to mess up.

Man! I thought about re-wrapping my Ludwigs. Till I saw what it actually takes. I could screw that up real easy. I'll definitely get a pro! I'd like to know more dude.

Great story and great find

Slingerland tom mounts inspired Yamaha's tom mounts for sure. Yamaha tom mounts are my favorite to this day. By the way. I just received a very minty 5 piece chrome Slingerland kit! My fist "vintage" drum kit. I also found a chrome 14 inch shell only tom. It was fun gathering up all the hardware to restore it.

Dang! Sounded like him to me I'm just saying. Awesome set and sounds great! Thank you!

Absolute Beautiful set! Funny thing is as soon as I saw your set the first thing I thought was Triumph at the US Festival !Crazy

Shawn. Great snare you got there. I live in Dracut Ma and would love to come to your cave. Talk drums and hang. Keep up the great videos.

Just Amazing! the story and everything!!

Shawn, I forgot to ask, where did you find this kit? It's a Fibes, which is a rare kit and a Vistalite, to boot. With the amount of dirt, I guess it was in some kind of a garage. Also, it's got a matching snare and second floor tom as well. Overall nice find and again, great job.

That’s as cool as it gets right Shawn, very nice👍

Amazing work. As for finish, it's the same as for cymbals. Polished bring highs up, brushed/satin tames acoustic brightness.

I have a vintage 24x16. I know ur always lookin for them.

Where did you get the second grommet tool that rounds over the edge?

The gretsch drums came out really nice great gob.

right now I've got a 20/12/15 club date...(12/20 are early...red muffler with WFL stamps in the claws but no badges and fresh paint on the insides so no sdate stamps. Couldn't find a 14x14 for it bur was able to find a trans badge 15x12 for it...killer sounding floor tom. This week I found a kit at Klash drums...13/22 club date with trans badges and a 14x14 floor tom. Had to get it...return the 14 to the 12/20 and place the 15 in it's righful place with the 13/22...Gotta play em first,,,might have to let one go...not sure yet...I've also picked up a Super classic project that need spome serious work,

Great content + great job!

Your work is outstanding!

That audio drop-out added a bit of drama. Like a realisation that something was wrong. Great work, again. 👍

Great work, Shawn. It's quite relaxing watching your videos. 👍

I've just got this on loop... No need to stop.

I was watching this video yesterday afternoon and recalled that I had purchased a used 13" Pearl Omar Hakim Signature snare, but hadn't done anything with it. So I paused, got it out of my drum room, and started dismantling it while watching the rest of the video. Cheers!

Love it..Some great attention to detail..

Whoever is playing the groove in those interstitials is really good.

THose things are virtually flawless! Unbelievable.

toms and kick sound great but the snare is one of those infamous boxy sounding ones

I got a clear interior 6 ply kit with white wrap, sprayed painted red. First I sprayed black over it, then stripped it and had my buddy do the edges and re-wrap it in red glitter glass. Good thing too, the edges were terrible. Oh and has a 26" kick! The interior and edges on that kit look great, definitely gig and studio worthy.

I could watch this if it was 4 hours long. So satisfying

Great job. These sound so good!

Great job Shawn, it came out awesome!!