DrumEatDrum
Platinum Member
is there tearout under the washers of most of the drum shells out there on the market?
Most shells have much smaller holes drilled for the lugs, as they only need to pass a small screw through the shell, as opposed to these larger holes. Smaller hole usually = less chance for tearout.
I've taken lugs off of other drums and not seen tearout around the screw holes. But to be fair those would be much more expensive drums.
As for how/why/circumstances they were were there, Ludwig put them out there for people to see, and I saw it. All I can go by is what they put on display.