Here, finally, is the "money shot" of the Majestic Fibre Gold Pearl kit. I finished this project a while ago but never got around to photographing it properly out-of-doors so the chrome gleams and the patterned wrap displays at its best. I'm still hoping I'll find a floor tom to match, but.....
This is the blue-sparkle U.S. Mercury kit complete and ready to play. If I told you what I paid for those last four bass drum lugs you would think I was insane and foolish and indeed you would be right, but sometimes in order to complete a project you just have to throw money to the wind and break the budget. In the end I couldn't get too upset about it; to reach my goal and conclude this challenge with the proper parts I had to succumb to the tyranny of the selfish, greedy drum-gutters and accept their fleecing. This is what they do. They dismember vintage drums and then sell them off piecemeal so they can overcharge you for each individual component instead of giving you a deal for the entire assemblage. Heartless, avaricious bastards! But that's just how it is. They destroy and I reconstruct, and if that means sacrificing some of my hard-earned cash to restore the integrity and former glory of these poor, abused percussion instruments then I am willing to pay off the rapacious rapscallions. The sense of accomplishment that I receive from my work is of much greater value than the financial gain the "chop-shop" money-grubbers manage to swindle out of me.
Now if you will excuse me, I have other projects to work on.....
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