! Making drums !

[punx_drummer]

hi there, looking into buying a new maple snare(a GOOD one), boggle! $400+ dollars(1k+ for excellent ones). I was looking around the web and stumbled across a maple shell dealer, all sorts of plys and option. I wanted to know if i bought a shell(lets say snare-maple-10ply) and began to make my own snare drum(lugs/rims/etc bought seperately) and finished it, would it sound as good as the top snare drums? i dont want to spend all this money and have it sound like crap...what makes really expensive maple snare drums sound good?

[Tim Brown]

What dealer is it?

I would go with Drum Supply House. I built my entire kit from DSH, and Andy is really good to deal with.

They can do alot of the work for you, if you don't have the tools to do it.

You can literally build an OCDP snare from Drum Supply House. The exact same lugs, Shell, strainer - everything.

http://www.drummaker.com



Tim

[fenix]

I made my drums from www.precisiondrum.com Keller maple shells. They have decent prices.

[the3bach]

I just bought a Keller maple shell and was wondering if there are templates to use when mounting hardware or any other way to avoid a major screwup.

[Tim Brown]

You have to make a Template.

Most guys just lay a hoop over the shell, and take a pencil and mark where the center of the tension rod holes are, then take a small contractor's square, and use that to trace the line on the shell, then measure from the centger of the shell's height to mark where the lugs would go on each "lug line" that you have marked, or you can make a template out of a piece of plastic, or masking tape.

The pro's use a table that has the diameter of each sized shell laid out on it, so the stick thr drumshell on the circle that it matches, and it has lines indicating where the lugs should be centered, they then mark on the shell with a pencil.


Tim

[the3bach]

Thanks for the info Tim.