Excellent, does what I want with style! Bought the Gibraltar consolette and had little resonance for tom. This mount let's the drum sing! Better design and less bulky. As always DW hit it out of the park!

yeah!

Awesome

This thing absolutely rules. I've always loved the look of the "banana rail" tom mount, but I'm a hard hitter, so I never thought of them as a serious option. DW has combined that classic look with their, as always, rock-solid hardware. I installed one of these on my Pork Pie kit and it looks absolutely killer. Easy to install, far more adjustable than old-school rail mounts, and a hell of a lot more durable. Love it.

My mount came on my DW special edition Buddy Rich tribute kit in the Classic series. It has some nice features like a quick tightening lever in the L-rod, and it came with some semi-nice features like the memory lock on the rail. The latter may be useful to some folks, but it also takes up some real estate on the rail itself, diminishing how far you can shift the tom position.

While the construction is typical DW perfection, the design is not. It incorporates the worst aspects of a rail mount. Specifically, it slips. A simple light knurling on the rail or the inside of the clamp that grabs it would have prevented that. I have to brace the rack tom that is on my kit against my snare drum to hold it in position. To me that is a major failing.

On the plus side, the hole pattern will fit the Walberg & Auge rail that was used by Ludwig, Slingerland, Leedy and others when this was the way to mount a tom. I measured it on my 1961 Slingerland lit as well as a Gretsch round badge kit. Of course it will not fit the Ludwig models that had the four-hole pattern that they used in the 1960s.

Also, if you are making a purchase decision as to whether this or the Gibraltar SC-GVRM Vint Rail Mount 10.5Mm L-Rod will best suit your needs I would personally opt for this one. I have owned and used both and this one is better constructed and sits a little lower for approximately the same price (at the time of this review). However, be aware that both are flawed and both have slipping problems.

If you are looking for a rail for a vintage kit you may want to check out the Steve Maxwell rail that is easy enough to find with a web search. That one is built to the old Walberg & Auge specs, but with better tolerances and is actually less apt to slip than this DW rail or the Gibraltar model.

I love my DW kit, but this rail is the weak link.