Here's a look at another restoration project I got involved in recently: a vintage Slingerland Aluminum Snare. I found the shell and the bottom rim in the attic and decided to give 'er a shot. I have plenty of spare drumheads lying around and found I had a thin, snare-side head as well as a coated, batter-side head, so I thought maybe I could restore this drum to its former, playable condition.
Although I had plenty of tension rods to put this thing together, I had two major parts missing: the top rim and the snare chains. Now, in the old days these were major obstacles, and probably the reason I stashed this snare shell away in the attic and forgot about it. Snare chains are relatively easy to find at any decent music store, but rims? That's a little more challenging. That's something I would have to special order, pay an exorbitant amount for, and then wait forever for it to arrive.
Not so in the modern age of eBAY! I can find anything on eBAY (except Gon Bops Triple Agogo Bells, a decent used bell tree or a faithful wife, to name just a few items for which I have unsuccessfully searched). There are hundreds of people selling all kinds of crap on eBAY that most people never heard of and do not need. A fourteen-inch, eight-lug, top-side Slingerland snare rim just happens to be among these loads of crap. In a matter of minutes I found exactly what I needed, threw my money away on it, and before too long, the FedEx man brought it right to my doorstep. Might I say: Boo-yah.
So I am very pleased that I now have a fully-operational Slingerland Aluminum Snare Drum with all its parts intact. It's not the best drum I ever owned, but it sounds pretty good, looks pretty cool.....and you don't have one. So there. Go find one on eBAY.
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