Cool!!

What are the sizes?

Size: 18 BD, 8, 10, 13 TT. Non standard sizes. Its homemade reconstruction.

Cool looking kit,something you brought back from the dead?

It looks like those shells are poplar? Looks a lot like the poplar that grows here in my neck of the woods.

Amati shells are beech, as far as I know.

I'm trying to figure out , where the picture of the interior of the shell is? and/or what prompted that comment.

Beechwood Shell. The thin-film coating.

I obviously don´t know about these, as I can´t see the insides - but not all Amatis are beech. The snare I had and customized a couple of years ago was definitely not beech, but something more porous - could very well be poplar.

I redid the edges, as they were very rough and poorly profiled:

[img]http://www.gratisimage.dk/thumb-ED7E_4A3FA86F.jpg[/img]

Click on the thumbnail for large version, click on the large for mega-version.

[img]http://www.gratisimage.dk/thumb-CF4B_4A3FA86F.jpg[/img]

[img]http://www.gratisimage.dk/thumb-4762_4A3FA90A.jpg[/img]

Regards

Jon

It is quite possible that Amatis exported to Western bloc were made from different wood. Export-oriented goods often greatly differed from the stuff which was available at the home market.

Of the European poplars, white poplar ,usually has more grain than what your drum has but trembling aspen --populus tremulus, is fairly light in grain, more resembling European silver birch, in the grain but a little less hard. There is also black alder, as a possibility too. It can easily be mistaken for poplar. It is similar in grain and about as soft.