Background: a Bonhamesque big rock kit made from a mish mosh of orphan vintage shells.
-1941 or '42 14 x 26 maple bass drum shell, single tension, stripped duco
-1970's Slingerland 16 x 18' floor tom. This one came wrapped in Black Nitron and had mahogany exterior ply , requiring re-veneering in maple
-1938 Leedy or Ludwig 14 x 16" maple floor tom
-1965 10x14 maple snare shell, also single tension and stripped duco.
I posted about this quite a while ago asking for ideas aesthetically to deal with covering the center holes in the single tension shells (I will be adding Ludwig classic lugs to these two shells). I decided to inlay all the shells to bring the whole works together aesthetically.
I had an old log of walnut a little under 3' length and always have a ton of aspen around here, so decided to make up some inlay from scratch. It too is a mish mosh. The darkest wood in the triangle middle section is the walnut, the lightest is the aspen and the borders jatoba and pine, was fun project and cumulatively took about three hours to process cut and glue up the inlay. I ended up with around two dozen strips of the stuff and may use the same for another set of vaughncraft cherry shells. I chose the center triangle/peak motif as it seems reminiscent of the Colorado mountains around here. Dark mountains with snow covered peaks.
Just finished making the inlay itself today and have started to install it in the shells. I expect pretty rapid progress from here, I reckon I'll finish the inlaying tomorrow, then finish the shells, mount hardware and tune them up within the next week
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