A few months ago I lucked into this 5.5 x 14 Kent snare on eBay. Kent was a drum company in Upper New York State that built reasonably good quality, reasonably priced drums. This snare has a very good maple shell, with well cut bearing edges and snare beds, and a really nice red sparkle wrap that is still bright and tight on the shell.It had a broken snare strainer (not uncommon, apparently), eyelet lugs, and what appear to be COB single flange hoops. I've decided to install Champagne lugs and an Ayotte strainer (this strainer has a variable spacing for the screws) and am not drilling any new (or larger holes). I'm also leaving the bearing edges and snare beds, as they are just fine. I'll be hanging on to the original hardware. I'm waiting on some clips from DrumFactoryDirect, and will be completing the snare as soon as I get them. Stay tuned ...
Updated - finished it up last weekend (March 4) and I was happy with how it turned out. And no sooner had I finished it than I sold it (and passed along the old hardware with it).
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