Monday, July 11, 2011

Vintage Ludwig Logo

I've just finished roughing out a vintage Ludwig logo for my old 1930 Ludwig bass drum.









This logo is similar to one that features on the Aero Kraft label that I found inside the drum.
I do this all free hand the same way I used to do when I was a sign writer and graphic artist in the 1970's and 80's because I have no skill with any computer graphic program.

Next step is to pounce the logo on to the calf skin and paint it on.

I'm still deciding on whether to paint a graphic on the whole skin or not.

I've seen some beautiful vintage, bass drum skin graphics that strongly tempt me to do it.

More later.

I found a 16 inch Meinl medium crash cymbal this week to add to my collection of bits and pieces. I now only have to pick up a 14 inch floor tom tom and a cymbal stand from a friend next month and I have the whole set up complete. I can't wait!

Once it's all together I'll set it up and take some images with my cymbal set up and post it all on this blog.

Harmen