success is right...

 

Looks great Ben.

 

I would have never thought of that. Good job, looks like birdseye maple too.
Fantastic.
Herb

 

Beautiful work!
Dick

 

Drum on!

Looks really really good. Hope you branch out to Tom Toms.

 

Awesome! Who would have thought of that? You did fantastic!

 

Superb job !

Now this is a wood project that I would never thought of...
If you ever do a tutorial (youtube, pdf, making of pictures, etc.) I'm curious of how it is made !!!

Congrats !

Jean

 

... but persistence paid off

It is really true! marvelous work!

 

Did you glue up and then turn on a lathe? Sure looks great. Any photos of how you did it?

 

It takes a pretty big lathe to turn drum shells. Pictured is likely a 14" diameter (13 7/8") shell.

Devising a way to rotate the shell over a router bit is another way (the way I did mine).
My setup is clamped together allowing the pieces to disassemble and get stored easily.

The inside was routed by the shell suspended by rollers as pictured.

 

Great job!

 

Hard build to beat, I mean..... Great looking drum Ben!

 

Thanks for the compliments everyone! Ralph is right on with this one. there's a good amount of info on the good old internet on how to do this and quite a few different approaches to building a stave snare. My approach was similar to Ralphs and I learned a few things from him as well. As a long time player, this was something I really wanted to try so I read as much as I could find and went to work. I can't take credit for doing anything original as it's all been done before. If not for those who I learned from I would've never thought of doing this either.

 

Looks good. How does it sound?

Darryl