mcbike
Silver Member
70's gretsch fully restored. covering removed, mounting holes patched up, lacquered with silver sparkle, and upgraded hardware with gibraltar style heavy duty spurs, and new gretsch floor tom legs and mounts. t-claws switched out to rods, notice the virgin bass drum, and tom mounts removed added a r.i.m.s mount.
bass drum showing some of the finish and the stop sign badges
here is the new floor tom mounts much better than the 70's gear
the new spurs with replacement hoops also done in the silver lacquer.
bass - 24"x14" aquarian batter evans emad resonant
tom - 13"x10" evans g1 batter g1 resonant
floor tom - 16"x16" evans g1 batter g1 resonant
snare - 14"x6.5" c&c 9 ply maple evans genera hd batter hazy 300 resonant
cymbals
14" zildjian quickbeat hi-hats
18" zildjian A custom crash
20" zildjian K dark custom ride
or
20" zildjian A custom ride
the sound is just incredible, last night at rehearsal my bass player said it sounds like each drum is sampled. the gretsch toms have such a low fundamental pitch they really sound amazing.
the finish is incredible too it's flawless i've never seen a sparkle lacquer this deep. incredible.
also i love the die-cast hoops. they are really heavy but they make tuning to easy! I want to put them on my snares now too.