Nut Box
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My new Ajax Nu-Sound kit.
OK so it's not a Rogers (so not posting in the Show Us Your Kits section), but this is what Ajax started doing after their 6 years or so of producing ER.
In his conversation with Swivomatic, Eddie Ryan said, that import duty on American drum kits was lifted in the late 60s. This would have made the Rogers/Ajax licence a deal a nonsense. This is probably why manufacture of ER stopped around about 1967 at more or less the same time that US Rogers kits started to be imported by Dallas-Arbiter. Bossey and Hawkes updated their Ajax range with the introduction of Ajax Nu-Sound.
Nu-Sound used mahogany shells and pressed brass lugs (Oh not those lugs again!), you would have thought they would have had more sense. I have always thought that it would be interesting to see where Ajax went after ER.
So, I'm sitting reading through a forum the other day and there is a guy there wanting to off-load an old Ajax kit, free to anyone who would be able to come a pick it up! Even better it is the type of Ajax kit with the "A" on the lugs. Now I am not an Ajax expert but I know that that is NU-Sound. And even better it was only a 45 min drive.
He talked down the kit so I wasn't expecting too much but it is not bad at all.
Firstly a lovely wrap. This is the same later Red Pearl that was used for ER.
The lugs I think look great, really chunky, and the "A" fittings for the tom legs and spurs etc. are quite Art Deco.
The lugs suffer with the same problems as usual and someone has tried to bolt about half of them back on. There are some stray Premier fittings.
Do these look familiar at all?
Mahogany shells, 5 VERY thin plies I think with re'rings with the grain running around the drum now. The bearing edge is the same as ER, so they learnt something here.
And a serial number!!!!!!!!!!! Yippee 101519 and "Made in England" I make that the third quarter of 1966. I am adding this to my evidence on the serial numbers topic.
Can't wait to hear what these sound like and an extension to the history. Very generous bloke.
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7/16/2008, 10:32 am
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Re: My new Ajax Nu-Sound kit.
Nut Box! Awesome. I really like the lugs and art deco ft leg brackets. These are nice looking drums.
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7/23/2008, 10:39 am
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Re: My new Ajax Nu-Sound kit.
Hey Nut Box...what a result !i,ve heard a lot of good about Ajax Nu-Sound drums but have never seen or played one myself, the set looks Fantastic,let us know how they sound when you get to play them 
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7/23/2008, 1:45 pm
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Nut Box
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Re: My new Ajax Nu-Sound kit.
.........and good news, I have found a guy who is going to sell me a wood shell snare (not the same colour but will do for now), some lugs and other fittings.
Last post for a while.
Alan
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