drumhammerer
Silver Member
Hey Volvoguy, what year is your classic maples? The hardware you have on yours is the original classic style with the updated wing nuts, instead of the horrible hexhead screws I had on my mid 70's 3 plies. The Elite hardware is the newest version that takes the 10.5mm L-rods instead of the 9.5mm rods. Those brackets are more square, and the bass drum tom mount plates are different too. When I built my Keller kit, the tom brackets I got from Drummaker turned out to be exactly the same as the newer Ludwig mounts, so I wonder if Gibraltar makes all of Ludwig's newer hardware, as I know they make alot of the generic parts found on the drum builder supply sites. It's high quality stuff, though. I do believe you can still get the Ludwig classic mounts/brackets by special order.