How to Make Custom Drums

Learning how to build your custom drum set has never been eaiser.

Entries for March, 2010

Drum Building 101 – How to Wrap a Drum Shell – Part 2

This is the 2nd and last post on how to wrap your drum shells! Enjoy! Check out the first post here. Another important blog post to view along with this post is “How to Keep your Wrap Seams From Coming Up“.
After you have made sure there is not sanding dust on the wrap or on [...]

How to Take Good Drum Photos – Interview with Chad Zelner of Two Pair Photography

When you build your very own custom drum or drum set you’ll want to take some great product photos to show off your work to everyone you know. In the past I’ve been lucky to work with some amazing photographers who have shot some promo pictures of drums that I’ve built, one of them being [...]

Drum Building 101 – How To Keep Your Drum Wrap Seams From Coming Up

I have a confession to make. I recently discovered that the seams on the 2nd wrapped drum set I ever made are starting to come apart. This is unacceptable, but luckily you get to learn from my mistake. Wrapping your custom drums with a sparkle, glass glitter, onyx, pearl, or solid color wrap  is an [...]