In January 2023 I bought this beautiful but quite dusty Ludwig Standard drumset made in 1970. It has a 22x14" kick, 16x16" floor tom, and 13x9" / 12x8" rack toms. I spent the next few months meticulously restoring the hardware, shells, heads, and tracking down the missing hardware for it.

This video took quite a while to make, because I had to negotiate some studio space and put together a good recording setup for the kit. I was finally able to shoot the final part of this video in about August this year (though the drums had been back together for a while), and only just now had time to edit and finish it! Now that I've got everything sounding good and wired up I'm really excited to make some more music with it.

Big shout out to ‪@rdavidr‬ for inspiring this video and sending me down the vintage Ludwig rabbit hole with his original Ludwig Standard video:    • I Found a Vintage Set of Ludwig Stand...