Here is a project that I'm currently working on. I build and custom paint drums as a Hobby/part time job. This is a Mahogany Stave built Drum Kit. The customer wanted it custom painted with a Emerald Green Metal Flake. The kit is going to get Gold Plated hardware when completed. The grain of the Mahogany was a real pain to get the grain to fill in without pinholing. The kit is a 10" Tom, 12" Tom, 14" Floor Tom, and a 18" Bass Drum. All that is left is applying the flake to the Bass Drum Hoops and then letting the clear shrink down so I can level sand and buff them out. Hope you like.
No, These are Stave Shells so they use several blocks of wood cut on the right angle and then glued together to make a circle. And then it is placed on a lathe and turned to true it up inside and out for a complete round tube. For the Steam Bent Shells I use Vaughn Craft. There bent shells are pretty much the best ones out there. This kit's thickness is about a 1/2" Thick.
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