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Drum Building Resources/June 23, 2011
Drum Restoration This is a guest post by Jon Lee of MNI Drumworks in Austin, TX. In the fall of 1993 my parents gave in. The past 18 years had been a torturous, ear bleeding ordeal for both my Father and beautiful Mother
Drums/May 26, 2011
Starting a Custom Drum Company I’ve been chatting with Brian Roberts who has recently sent me some amazing pictures of the drums that he has built with the help of the eBook. I hope to post an interview with Brian soon t
Drum Building 101/March 23, 2011
Here is the 2nd part to the “Drum Building Tools” series. In this post I briefly discuss some of the drum building tools and supplies that you might want to get your hands on if you plan on building drums more often than
Drum Building 101/March 3, 2011
What Tools Do I Need To Build Drums? It seems like I’ve gotten more emails than usual from people interested in building custom drums that just want to know what tools they will need to start building drums. To answer th
Drums/February 15, 2011
I just got another email from a customer in San Angelo. I love getting these emails and sharing them all of my readers! I hope that these pictures and stories from other drum builders will help you realize that you can b
Reader's Drum Pictures/February 8, 2011
Just got these awesome pictures in from Esteban in Ventura, CA! This is what he said “First off I wanted to thank you for putting out your e-Book, it was a huge help. I wouldn’t have even got into drum building without t
Drum Building Resources/December 20, 2010
Twitter users, “tis better to give than receive”, so I’m running a Twitter-only contest where you (and 4 other lucky twitter users) can win a copy of “How to Make Custom Drums”. All you have to do is click the link and r
Drum Building 101/December 18, 2010
Take your time when doing anything that becomes monotonous or else you will end up doing something that you will regret! For example double check all of the cuts you make, all of the holes you drill, and don’t try to cut
Drums/November 18, 2010
Pete emailed me the other day with these pictures. I loved what I saw and asked him to be interview for the podcast. Listen below!MDP 003 – Interview with Drum Builder Pete Yaskovik Mentioned in this podcast: MinWax Poly
Drums/November 9, 2010
MDP 002 – Interview with Drum Builder Troy Townsley Had a great interview with Troy Townsley. He had some great insight for drummers looking to get sponsored by a custom drum company since he has been sponsored by some g
