Stave Shell Drum Building Tips By Bud BrownellDo you Dream of Someday Being Able to Build Your Own Stave Shell Drums?Have you spent countless hours looking for information on how to build that perfect stave shell drum!
You are not alone: From the Workshop of Bud Brownell Hi fellow drum enthusiast. My name is Bud Brownell and as long as I can remember I have had a love of music and a love of woodworking. I built my first stave shell snare drum in 1997. For 15 years I played drums with a variety of bands on the East Coast of Canada. I also worked summers when I was in high school with my father who was a cabinet and furniture builder. I later worked full time with him until he passed away in 1977. I have worked for the past 20 years as a cabinet and furniture builder in southern Ontario Canada. For the past 12 years I have combined my two loves in life - woodworking and drums. I have concentrated my woodworking skills on building stave shell snare drums. The past 12 years has definitely been a learning curve. Due to increasing interest from the public about how I build my stave shells and all the e-mails I have received asking for ideas on stave shell drum building I am releasing this book which has 73 pages packed full of useful information on drum building. Also visit this link to view our promotional video for this book on youtube I want to pass on to you some of the techniques and ideas I have learned over the years. Drum building requires multiple woodworking skills and an eye and desire for perfection. Building stave shell drums all starts with the wood you select for your project. Snare drums are commonly built from maple due to the excellent quality of sound it produces. These days you will find stave shells built from a variety of woods including birch, oak, purple heart, bubinga, ash, walnut, cherry and others including combinations of these woods. Different woods will give your drum a different sound. Do you want that dry tight sound found in Blues and R & B music or an open bright sound with cutting power and projection? Over the past 12 years some of the snare drums that I have built have:
The tips found in "Stave Shell Drum Building Tips by Bud Brownell" addresses some of those problems I encountered over the past 13 years. This book also contains information on building useful jigs and hand tools. Also you will learn the width and angle to cut the staves for any size drum shell.
You can cut your learning curve greatly. Why spend years accumulating this knowledge when you can learn it today. This book is in a downloadable format so even if it is 2:00 a.m. you can immediately download "Stave Shell Drum Building Tips by Bud Brownell"
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This e-book will help you learn the many things that took me years to discover. I have found that building snare drums can be very satisfying and enjoyable work. There is a certain sense of accomplishment felt when you finish "That special Drum."
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