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Or they may have already had their ears to the ground with acrylic drums regardless of Jim corder, but I guess the family wasn’t happy about that. As the story goes, The way I was told it, Ludwig did not like the interchangeable color idea but loved the see-through drums themselves and ended up sort of stealing the idea in corders Eyes. He had this multi colored shell insert idea that he actually got a patent for, and actually pitched to Ludwig. He was making or sourcing his own acrylic shells and taking customers drum sets and swapping all of their hardware over onto clear shells, or just building kits out of hardware that he acquired from different companies. He also told me a few interesting things about his dad, one of them being, the custom clear drum company whichHe was doing right around the time that Zickos just becoming popular, I think. A podcast all about the rich history of the drums - and how they became what they are today Join Bart van der Zee as he speaks with experts about the curious journey of the ever-evolving drum set. He was totally fine with that and loved the fact that somebody out there was still caring about his dad‘s drums. They are very sought after and beloved drums that are the gem of many collections and we learn about the different eras and owners of the brand. Tommy has been the owner of Fibes Drums since 1994, and he is the perfect person to tell us about the history of this iconic brand that dates back to 1965. Stout to him to make sure it was OK if I had some reproduction stickers made up for the corder badges after I rewrapped my kit. The History of Fibes Drums with Tommy Robertson. Anyway, diving deeper into the corder It’s pretty interesting… I picked up a set of Jasper shell Drums built by them, and contacted Jim son, whose name escapes me right now… But he’s basically the one running the company currently that sells tube lugs. Very cool! Tommy’s dancing around the subject though of when he’s actually going to start making Fibes drums again isn’t he? He’s been saying for over 10 years that they’re starting it back up again.