I have seen too many people defrauded by a clone drum to assist much in the making of one. Most are easy to spot. Some not so much. Some are so well done, pictures do not tell the truth. So, you build it. You make it as absolutely correct as possible. In ten years........you die. Your estate broker presents it as a genuine Dyna-Sonic. Some one briefly views a couple of bad pictures and it is deemed a Dyna-Sonic. It gets sold to someone who really doesn't know. In five years...... it gets sold again... and now I own it. And I am ****ed. In the clone wars.... I am on the side of real drums, and only real drums.
Wow, clone drum? Estate brokers? I think you've completely missed the point here. I'm looking to build a drum for personal use which is not going to resemble a Rogers AT ALL with the exception of the size of the shell. And even then, the Rogers Luxor shell was nothing unique. I thought this was pretty clear in the beginning. All I'm really trying to do here is find out if a modern Keller 6 or 8-ply is closer in thickness.
