Tempro Pro Branded Pearls

[dale w miller]

Basically back in 60's Pearl, Yamaha, and Tama factorys cranked out affordable drums out of Luan that somewhat copied well known american brands with hardware and wraps which were branded under various different names .. even the badges on some of these stencil kits resembled the american brands .. there's a lot of stencil brand names!

That’s that term, huh? Thanks. Mapex appeared to be a stencil kit of TAMA.

[LongJohnA]

Prior to Pearl coming to the states in the early 60's they sold complete kits without their badge to American companies to badge. My kit is the Thunderking kit that Pearl offered in 69 with the Tempro Pro badge. Stencil kits, I believe, are "cloned" kits. I can't remember the man's name that first did this but his first kit had a "Mandy" badge on it for his granddaughter. I'll try to find the link.

[dale w miller]

Prior to Pearl coming to the states in the early 60's they sold complete kits without their badge to American companies to badge. My kit is the Thunderking kit that Pearl offered in 69 with the Tempro Pro badge. Stencil kits, I believe, are "cloned" kits. I can't remember the man's name that first did this but his first kit had a "Mandy" badge on it for his granddaughter. I'll try to find the link.

There are still a lot of Chinese companies that do that with almost any product you can imagine. You go over to the factory, look through everything, get exclusive rights to that model, possibly give them parts to go with it and you’re off.

[LongJohnA]

I'm not debating that there are "stencil" sets out there I'm pointing out that this one is made by Pearl all the way. Hell, I even have a stencil set in my inventory.
Look at the pictures of my set and the Thunderking picture and you'll see why I came to this conclusion. I'll find the post I read a long time ago and post it here.

Thanks for all the replies.