New Padauk Shells from Lake Cottage

[Parradiddle Pete]

Updated with more pics reply #18

Hey guys. These are 2 Padauk shells which we have spent 2 days on, plus a good lot of hours to get the timber.

They look stunning, and will hopefully sound amazing too

The slightly deeper one measures 12" (to fit that head size, not actual size)x 6 7/16" with a 20mm thick shell

The shallower one is 12" x 5 11/16" with a thickness of 22mm

One of the 2 is going to hopefully be sold when completed by a guy we know with a drum shop. He will keep it in the shop for us and try to sell it.

Unless anybody on here is interested in one?

Or any other shell/drum for that matter

The drums will have Chrome tubes, triple flanged hoops etc etc. Which i should probably order from Gareth at Highwood pretty soon!

Not sure about how to cut edges on such thick shells yet...anybody got any ideas? Our router bit isn't big enough, we were thinking about doing it on the lathe, we can get the profile exactly as we want it that way.

What should i do for snare beds? also

Here are some pics!

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[Parradiddle Pete]

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[billdrum]

Looks good Pete. Maybe I will have you do a shell for me sometime.

[ringworm]

Damn thats nice

[the_pure_drummer]

Nice man very nice!

[Drum Phil]

Shiney.

[Pleaseme]

Nice. Should look good with the chrome, but why tubes?

[Parradiddle Pete]

Shiney.

That's just the finish after being snaded to 320 grit!

We're thinking about putting a high gloss laquer onto one and danish oiling the other, i think we may just danish oil though, spraying would tak a long time and bump cost up a fair bit!




Tube lugs...because they are functional, they look good, will match the my other snare slightly and mainly as there is nothing else out there which is remotly as good looking! Highwood have their Single Mounting Point lugs, but, I dont want single points on a snare.

Thanks for positivenes! :)

[Pleaseme]

Coolness, it's fair enough. Looking forward to seeing the finished things and I'd love to see the difference between the danish oil and the gloss laquer, obviously pics will be required!

All this stave talk makes me crave a wood lathe and a real workbench :(

[Parradiddle Pete]

Yeah. Stuff the bench though, I'd rather have a router table or a thicknesser/planer/spindle moulder. I think they are way more important than a bench ;)

Erm, if you're interested, there are ways which you can make a stave drum without a lathe? I can talk you through that a little if you want, though, chippy will possibly beat me to it :'(

[Berk]

Yes Please.

[spike9908]

Damn, you live in the UK, don't you? If not then I would buy something from you if you had a good price. You have made some nice stuff.

Keep up the good work.

[-TGP-]

Beautiful!

[drummguy731]

Hopefully they will have a good sound, I know they make some marimbas outta padauk so it's most likely an acoustically pleasing wood. Actually Pete, I've got a question for you. I've got this 90-100 year-old oak tree that died in my yard of natural causes(so no rotting or diseases in the wood). I was wondering if you knew how I could get someone to make a couple shells outta it? I'm not thinking a set, but a LOT of different snare drums(basically whatever thickness/depth/width I want).

[Parradiddle Pete]

I would think the first thing is to talk to a local sawmill and see if they'll cut it up for you. Try to get as much Quarter-Sawn wood from it as you can. Quarter Sawn Oak gives a nice fiqure often.

How long has it been dead? It would need to be dried for a long time before you try to make anything from it. If you use wood which is too wet, the shell (or whatever you make) will distort as it dries out and you will end up with an oval or another strange shape.

There would be more to it. But i think that you possibly could get a sawmill to cut it up properly for you.

[MisurCanavi]

Did you use Koko's jig or a lathe?

[Parradiddle Pete]

Lathe all the way.

We use a VB-36 Master Bowlturner...It's like the lathe equivalent of a Sonor Designer or a Mapex Orion or and amazingly high end kit ;)

[Doublebasssabian]

Sweeeeet. Those should turn out beautifully. Hope it goes well brah.

[Parradiddle Pete]

The drums both have edges now

Took quite a while. We did not have a router bit big enough to do the inside cut, so we came up with something to hold the shell in and cut the inside on the lathe at as near as damnit 45 degrees.

We did the smaller, outside cut with a router table. We may need to make them a bit bigger from the outisde. How much flat should there really be?

Help us with snare beds pleeease!

Here they are:


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[billdrum]

Looks great Pete. Have you thought about not doing snare beds? Just use a hoop with an extended opening.

[Parradiddle Pete]

Whats the hoop idea all about?

The first snare we made had no bedsand sounded horrible. we then cut beds only to find that we had been sent snares which were an inch too short for the drum, so they wouldnt buzz at all.

I might try to put them together without and then add them if neccesary

[MNdrummer21]

*faints* Beautiful shells, my friend! Within a few years I will hopefully get my dream kit made for me: Custom 6-Piece Padauk kit. I adore the luster and finish of the wood, and it sounds incredible!

[Parradiddle Pete]

Yes to everything in your post!

Danish oiling them really brings the finish to a new level of beauty!



Does anyone know where i can find those snares which pearl uses on its concerty snares? I want some for these, they're more like straps than actual snare wires and i would know them normally, I'm interested in a set of 13" and a set of 12" for one of these and my current snare.

x

[Parradiddle Pete]

Bump

[Pleaseme]

Your bearing edges look neat and well cut, well done!

I'm starting on octobans before I even attempt a stave shell, I can knock together a turning mechanism for the bearing edges using a drill and various bit of wood.

So I hope, anyway... :s

[Parradiddle Pete]

Good luck man.

What construction you going for on the octos?

Definatly try a snare at some point. Start with a 12" or 14" man!

<3 drumz :)

[Pleaseme]

What do you mean by construction method? They don't really take an awful lot, I'm buying some 150mm OD clear acrylic tube from a supplier on eBay who will cut it all to length for me. Then I'll build a little wooden rack/clamp/measuring device out of wood so that I can mark out and drill the holes perfectly each time. I think we'll be buying the hardware from Highwood too, some nice chrome lugs and mounts.

[Parradiddle Pete]

I didn't know if you were using metal, acrylic or wood. If wood, i wondered what construction metod you would be using. Highwood makes acrylic octobans in any length you want, why not just get them to send you the stuff?

x

[CasB]

Looks great Pete :)