Finally we got some good pictures of this snare drum, thanks so much to my sister in law for taking all the pictures and editing them, check out her other work here: http://kailamoorephotography.com/
-Nick
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Tag Archives: stavedrum
New Toys
Finally we located a decently priced metal lathe, currently we are milling solid brass tube lugs for our future snares. We recently started building segmented wood hoops and I’ve been screen printing some new hoodies, Still not finished my kit but you know…. it takes time to make beautiful wood crafts.
– Nick
Shells!
Well I suppose its time for an update, today we rounded up an 8×14 Birch snare drum, too be finished with an orange to rootbeer satin! and also my brothers snare drum witch is an Ovangkol 5.5×14 snare drum to be finished in Satin.
Incoming!! kick drum
This massive 20 x 20 kick drum will finish off our “rock fusion squared” kit, it was a bitch to glue up but we got it!! look for the completed kit featuring an orange finish in about a months time!! enjoy some pictures:
– Nick
16 x 16 floor tom progress!
Well, the snow has fallen and winter is officially here so drum building is in full swing again. Today we made more progress on the floor tom and we are starting to really think hard about our milling jig, we’re going to get a proper jig welded up with dials and fancy knobs, so today we milled the drum down with the router on top and i must say this is the way to do it. I have been fooling around with “mirror” finishes and that’s coming along nicely also been messing about with wood dye that is some potent stuff!! Got a nice pie of Purple Heart for a future snare drum and finally organized our drum parts. All in all it was a good productive day, enjoy some photos:
– Nick
Progress!
Finally some more pics to post, today we finished rounding off our 12 x 12 rack tom for our first full kit hurrah! enjoy some more pictures:
More to come stay tuned. Nick
Building Time!
YESS.. we got some time to get together again and build!! it started with failure but ended in success originally we set out to build just a 20×22 bass drum but our bevel cut was out by .2 of a degree so over 40 cuts we added 8 deg. to our circle.. oh well adjust the saw and re-cut the staves for a rack tom (12 x 12) and while were at it, make another snare with the left over bass drum woods ( 14 x 7) so after every thing was said and done it did end up being a productive day see for yourself:
– Nick
Drum Layout Mat
A gift from me to you, a drum layout mat that does drum sizes 8″ to 22″ and 6, 8, 10, lug patterns Free not 44.99 (please dont pay for one of these your better off making one with a protractor) but if you want a legit looking mat here you are. just save the image as and get it printed at a print shop, should only cost you $5
-Nick
16 x 16 Floor tom
got the 16 x 16 floor tom glued up today, it brought up a number of challenges though. All i can say is make sure you select your wood better than we did, we ended up taking alot of material off with the plainer and jointer today. All things considered we did end up with a pretty nice shell with very minimal gaps, we will spin this one down next weekend and hopfully glue up the 12″ rack tom, here’s some pics of the progress today
– Nick
Finally building again!
Welp, monday we are commencing building our “Rock” kit, 12 x 10 rack, 16 x 16 floor, 22 x 20 Kick. Ohhhh man im getting excited to see how this kit will sound, stay tuned for pics!! and happy long weekend to all!
– Nick
