Drums

[mirwa]

Little chuffed, I occasionally get to do some odd wood stuff.

Whilst not a guitar build or repair.

I made a Jarrah shell for Brady Drums a while back, he finished the job off and it was being sold to Charlie Watts, but ended up going to Fleetwood Macs private collection.

As given to me, I machined and turned this into a 12mm thick shell



After Brady Drums put the hardware on.



Here is one I did from start to finish for another drummer, solid wood

Start


What I gave him - Finished

[emmsone]

Most excellent!
As a drummer myself, i've already decided somewhere along the line i'll make myself a snare or 2, but I haven't got round to it yet mostly because I haven't worked out how i'll machine the insides, expecially when I want to do a 12" snare, I don't think even my palm router will fit inside without it being on a mount. One day though.....

[mirwa]

Yes I was chuffed.

Segmented snares are better for machining, they are more dimensionally stable.

These ones were scary to machine becuase they are a single piece of wood being bored and hollowed out.

Clearly the best way to machine them is on a lathe, but if you make the segments neatly, you could clean the inside up quickly with a bobbin sander or sandpaper wrapped around a pipe turned vee a drill.

The more segments, the closer you can get the insides to almost perfect before any sanding


Steve

[redir]

That's very cool. I had no idea that the shells were that thick.

[mirwa]

Sorry, that is pre machining almost an inch and a half thick, after machining, I take it down to about 1/2 inch.

Here’s a better photo, apologies for confusion

[redir]

Oh no I got that, you said 12mm. I didn't realize they were even that thick.

[Halcyon/Tinker]

Nice!

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[mirwa]

Originally Posted by redir

Oh no I got that, you said 12mm. I didn't realize they were even that thick.

Solid wood drums need mass to stop them cracking, that is why they are so heavy and expensive, pretty sure that snare drum was sold for around 3000 dollars.

My charge for making the shell from a lump of wood was 500, so good money, but very very long job as you have to keep accomodating the natural twist of wood as you machine it away and machine it over a two week period, the wood is dried and stored away for 6 years to start with before I got them.

Normal drums are about 3mm wall thickness.

Realistically its just like a guitar in we are working with wood, working with grain / twist / cracking / finishing etc.

Steve

[redir]

Originally Posted by mirwa

Solid wood drums need mass to stop them cracking, that is why they are so heavy and expensive, pretty sure that snare drum was sold for around 3000 dollars.

My charge for making the shell from a lump of wood was 500, so good money, but very very long job as you have to keep accomodating the natural twist of wood as you machine it away and machine it over a two week period, the wood is dried and stored away for 6 years to start with before I got them.

Normal drums are about 3mm wall thickness.

Realistically its just like a guitar in we are working with wood, working with grain / twist / cracking / finishing etc.

Steve

Very cool, thanks for the explanation.

[D. Churchland]

Missed this when you posted originally. Very cool and very nice looking drums!