Sorry i have been rather silent on here lately. I'm back and finally showing my kit because people have been asking me to do so for weeks! Here it is, everything is tagged or mentioned in the captions.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=2 ... =504471882

But any questions or comments are welcome!

Its a PDP kit. What series I do not know.

From his Facebook page:



Gibralter Curved Rack with curved wing extensions

Material is maple, 9 ply I believe.

Toms:
Evans Hydraulic batter side
Genera resonant glass on resonant side

Bass Drum:
Aquarian Super kick II batter side,
Evans Eq3 on Resonant Side

High Hat Stand: Iron Cobra

Pedals: Iron cobra 2005 power glide

Snare:
Evans HD Dry on Batter side
Evans Hazy 300 on snare side
Snares are OEM

In this photo from R to L: 14" A Custom hats (not master sound), 6" A custom splash, 14" A thin crash, 17" K custom dark crash, 8x8, 22x18, 8" A custom splash, 10x10, 5½"x14", 10 K custom splash, 18" K Custom session crash, Jordan Thompson (photos), 12x12, 16" K custom fast crash, Pork Pie Throne, 17" K china, 14x14, 20" A custom ride, 16x16

Nice. I always liked those blue Evans heads. Thud!!

You have quite a selection of K's for a young guy. Are they all yours??

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To Steve: The series is CX (before they moved production from Mexico to China)

The blue heads are pretty cool, they were perfect for that set. (I got clear ones now though because the blues were hard to find and i needed them ASAP.

The K's are all mine, and although im 22 i've actually had em since i was 17. I spent all my high school job money on these. It was an expensive investment... but i was sure drumming was what i wanted to do so it seemed worth while... and it has been as i've more than paid it off from gigs and what not.

blue Hydraulics, huh? You're taking me waaay back with those! I wasn't even sure Evans still made the Hydraulic heads.

Nice finish on that set.

I've got a 17" Dark K Crash as well. That thing works is every imaginable style -- rock, jazz, whatever.

yeah, a buddy of mine who plays in possibly the heaviest band I've ever heard plays all K's.

Fine lookin kit, Jordon.

Your buddy's in As Hell Broke Loose??

says the funniest guy in the room.

Sorry to nitpick RLRRLL (Tom) but K Dark, and K Custom are actually different cymbals. I have been tempted to get a 17" K Dark, but i couldn't justify adding another cymbal to my set up. I got the 18" K custom session as my main crash, and I got the 17" K Custom Dark because i find it blends better with the 18". By itself I do a little bit prefer the K dark, but in my set i couldn't really justify having both as I already have a lot haha. I considered getting an effect cymbal... maybe one with holes in it or something... just something different, but i really dont think i'd use it enough to justify adding yet another one to the mix. If i add any thing (and i am looking into it) it'll be a heavier ride.

That set-up looks awesome. Very clean path of travel, everything is in the "globe"!

Set looks great, and I'd love to invest in some K's myself.

Question: how tall are you? I could never reach those crashes!

Im 5'10". I used to have them lower, but as i wanted to incorporate more stuff into my set up i settled on the 1st and 2nd tier idea which has kind of evolved into 3 tiers. 3rd Tier is the two crashes and the China. 2nd tier is the two splashes in th emiddle and the 1st tier is the 14" a, and the 16K custom Fast crash and kinda the 6 inch Acustom splash. They also get bigger from the 6inch splash on the left, to the 20 inch ride all the way to the right.

Beautiful looking kit. I love the tom set up, im still waiting for a rack to set mine up like that. I can appreciate the "tiering" set up, because in the future when I add some more stuff on there I would like to do it that way, but do your 2nd and 3rd tiers have to be so far apart? I'm about 6'2 and those crashes seem a bit high for me to play. But hey to each his own, right?

great looking kit, I'd love to hear how it sounds.

I dunno, although i've moved the splash cymbals up a little bit since this pic was taken... crashes are still in the same spot. Haha thats where they feel good. Part of my reason for that is so that i strike them more on the side, where they sound really good. That way you dont hear much of the stick contacting the cymbal you know? I hate to hear the sound of someone clumsily bashing an otherwise beautiful cymbal. At that height, when i hit them all you hear is Crash.

That's a fine looking kit there, Jordan.

I'm 6'3 and I think those crashes are just a tad high, but if you dig it then it's all good. Hahaha.