Hi Folks,
I want to share the following with you:
Lately I've been fooling around with an idea I had for a long time. This is the first try-out. I've been wanting to make a (more or less) solid shell that is rigid but also extremely light and thin. After a lot of googling I came across video's about guitarbuilding. I kind of transferred the principle of the construction to a drum shell. In this case I build it out of 4 hot-pipe-bended pieces of oak (why not 1 piece: I wanted to use wood that I allready had and it was this maximum size).
The rings inside are from triplex (later I'll build them from segmented solid wood). The rings are not parallel to the shell as in the normal use of the re-ring, but perpendicular to the shell. This way a lighter and thinner ring can be used.
In the mean time I bought some old very wide and long boards of (real) mohagony and oak, so that will make next trys of this design al ot simpler.
But first I'll finish this drum and see how it sounds. I'm very curious if this design gives a decent sound.
