Designing a new drum kit - bubinga

[drumpriest]

SICK! I have a 6 year old studio drum kit from DW. I may be into getting a new kit soon, so I was out using their "kit builder". They now make exotic veneered drum sets. This one is waterfall bubinga.

[Scottydont]

Wow! Very beautiful!

[BobSch]

Looks entirely too nice to beat on!

[Tundra_Man]

Oh c'mon...

You're a woodworker. Just build one yourself!

[crokett]

Oh c'mon...

You're a woodworker. Just build one yourself!

Yeah! It can't be that hard to veneer one.

[LarryG]

Nice kit, but either the chrome or the gold has gotta go.

This is just a veneer, you say? If there any influence on the sound when different woods are used? (Not a drummer, so this is question is borne of idle ignorant curiosity.)

[drumpriest]

Yes, it does affect the tone to some extent. You need a hard wood to allow the maple or birch shell resonance to continue unabaited. Rosewoods of all types make great top veneer choices, as does hard curly maple.

The worst is to put a plstic coating on the shell. Indeed I have thought of making a drum or 2 myself. And in fact I started to work on a piccalo snare drum project. Making the bending forms is the hard part, and I'm limited to about a 6" deep shell.

Oddly I was thinking to veneer it with bubinga, as I have a flitch of veneer waiting for a project. I will probably still do that project, but I could buy a new kit to match it. ;-)

[dale]

I'd like to try a piccolo snare myself, but I'll do the stave thing instead of bending anything. For anybody wondering, construction is more like a barrel. Now that I've got a lathe, I think I could do it if I got brave enough to try.

I saw David Marks doing marquetry a while back. I'm not sure if I'm up to that either, but I think doing my initials in a contrasting wood would be neat.

Oh--Drum Priest--when are we going to get some recordings?

[drumpriest]

Dale, did you see my little marquetry attempt?

http://www.bt3central.com/showthread...ghlight=scroll

I've found that it's a bit more difficult to try and do marquetry on thin veneers because of potential blowout (1/32" thick). Woodcraft is now holding 1/16" veneers though, which is very nice, as I won't have to cut my own veneers all of the time.

The solid shell snares are around, most commercial drums are bent wood lamination, but dw's craviato is a solid shell made in the way you describe.

And finally, recordings....playing a show in early oct, it has pushed back (yet again) our studio time. I would say look at christmas now before anything is ready to hear on that front. grrr....

[dale]

Yah, I remember seeing that. I'd be lucky if I could get a D and a J to turn out as nice!