Stave Snare

Maple/mahogany stave drum I made for my drummer.

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6 Comments

thefartographer@lemm.ee · 8 pts · 2y (3 replies)

Wow! How the hell do you make a snare drum at home???

Pilferjinx@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (2 replies)

The tricky part is making the jig. It seems like every other guy out there has their own way. I had to figure out what would work using some of the ideas I've seen.

AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

I'd love to learn how. Do you have any resources you could share? Beautiful work!

Pilferjinx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Start here. It's what angles/size/#staves you'll need for the shell. https://uniontownlabs.org/tools/stave/ I considered commercially making these but quality hardware is too expensive to make it viable. Not too many people willing to drop a grand on a drum.

comiconomenclaturist@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y (1 reply)

What a beautiful looking drum. How does it sound?

Pilferjinx@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y

Thanks. I don't know how to describe the sound too well. Crisp, slightly warm, overall fairly balanced. My drummer gets a lot of inquiries about it after our sets so it seems to do pretty good. Our last snare was just a basic steel that was in rough shape and kept beaking heads.