How to Make Custom Drums

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

Entries for April, 2010

Lessons Learned from Building Custom Drums: Contact Cement

The past few weeks I’ve been waiting to get supplies in to build a new custom drum set for a P.Ellis Drums artist. I recently started the build process in my wood/drum shop. Like I have said before every time I build a new drum or drum set I learn something that changes the way [...]

5 Important Thoughts on Drum Building Safety

I have never had any major incidents when building drums, however there are some important safety precautions to take into consideration. Working with sharp powerful tools should make this obvious, but the joy and excitement of working with those tools can make thoughts of safety drift far away.  With that in mind [...]

What I Learned From My Most Recent Custom Drum Set Build

Every time I build a new custom drum or custom drum kit I learn something that can usually help me improve upon a similar drum set the next time around. Each new drum I build gets better and better and I find more efficient ways to do some of the drum building tasks. Most recently [...]

DRUM BUILDING GIVEAWAY! – Win Wooden Hoops, a copy of “How to Make Custom Drums” and Drum Wrap!

Twitter users, I’m running a Twitter-only campaign in an effort to gain more followers, and to do so I am giving out random drum building supplies every week for the next 5 weeks! The drum building supplies the be given out are as follows:

14″ 10-hole Wood  snare drum hoops ($100 value)
Sparkle and Glitter Wrap [...]

Drum Building 101:How to Make an Inlay Jig for your Router Table and Cut/Install Perfect Inlay on your Custom Drum Set!

The follow section is taken right from the pages of “How to Make Custom Drums”. Like what you see? Buy the full version and learn everything you need to know to be able to build your very own custom drum or drum set!
Making an Inlay Jig for your Router Table
Inlay’s can make your drums look [...]