DW Collector's Series Drum Set in Gold Sparkle FinishPly

Sizes (depth x diameter)

16x26 Kick Drum
8x12 Rack Tom w/Suspension Mount
14x16 Floor Tom w/Legs

Big tones from the big 2000!

This rack tom is dated October 13, 2000. What was going on October 13, 2000, that made someone want a drumset with a 26" kick and a 12" rack tom? Well, the number one song at the time was Come On Over by Christina Aguilera, so we don't think that had anything to do with these drums.

Maybe Bernie Dresel's magnificent performance with Brian Setzer at Woodstock 99, playing a kit with what appears to be TWO 16x26 kick drums! If you haven't seen it, it's worth watching.

Anyway...

Here's a kit with a humongous bass drum and normal-size toms, even a traditional-depth rack tom. So those toms aren't so tall over the kick that you can't play them anymore.

And that giant kick sounds amazing. It's surprisingly well-controlled for a drum so large.

The tom shells are of early DW make, who started making their own shells in the late 90s, but the kick shell is a Keller - we believe DW just didn't have a 26" mold in those early days, and were still getting the occasional shell from Keller as the orders came in.

You can tell by the joint on the reinforcement rings - a Keller shell has a straight lap joint; a DW shell has a sort of wavy finger joint.

Now, the condition -

This kit has been played a lot in the last 25 years, and it does show some signs of wear.

The lugs have some standard gig scratching, and there's a little more on the bottom, but really terribly unusual there.

However, the gold wrap has split in a couple places on the bass drum - it almost looks like the wrap shrank, and slowly opened a tear on its own. This has happened on the very bottom of the bass drum shell, and at on point on the front bass drum hoop.

This kind of split can happen on acoustic guitars, if you take it from a warm environment to a cold one without giving it time to settle; tops can split due to uneven shrinkage.

The bottom split is securely epoxied in place. The hoop split doesn't appear to be lifting, so the bond between wrap and shell still seems solid.

Please see photos for best details!