Drum Building Profile: My name is Brandon Blevins, I live in Lebanon, VA and I’m 27 years old. I work as an environmental scientist / professional to semi-professional drummer/bass player. I’ve been personalizing my drums since I first started playing around 16 years ago. I have the desire to personalize almost everything I own, so naturally, that translated to my …
Custom Drum Builder Profile: Justin Kochenberger
Custom Drum Making Name: Justin Where do you live? Philadelphia, Pa Drum Sizes Snare Drum – 14×8, Bass Drum – 26×16, Floor Tom – 16×16, Rack Tom – 13×8 What type of shells did you use? All shells are 8 ply Keller VSS Maple with reinforcement rings on the snare drum. What type of drum hardware did you use? All …
11 Ways to Achieve Your Personal Drumming Goals
How to Achieve Your Drumming Goals I recently had a chance to talk with Ed Francis aka “The Drummer on the Round Rock” to ask him to share some of his drumming wisdom with the community here at Makedrums. Ed shared some really incredible insights on attaining your goals as a drummer, but don’t be fooled! These tips can help …
33 Drummer and Drum Related Gift Ideas For the Drummer In Your Life
Gifts for the Drummer Big Fat Snare Drum This is my top pick for 2015. I started using BFSN this year, and I have gotten more compliments on my snare sound from sound engineers and concert-goers than I have ever gotten. If you don’t have a BFSN yet, you should stop making excuses and get yours today! KBrakes Probably my …
Drum Builder Interview: Jeremy Wolfe’s 2nd Custom Drum Set
I recently had time to interview Jeremy Wolfe about his recent experience with building drums. This is the 2nd custom drum set he has built with the help of this site. Check out our conversation and pictures below! Makedrums: Can you tell us about the drums you’ve built? Jeremy: This is the second kit I have built. It’s the first …
Audio Clips From Bart’s Custom Drum Set
I just received another email from Bart with drum audio recordings of the custom drum sets that he recently finished building. Bart specifically designed these drums to sound great for Jazz. If you would like to hear how some custom drums that I have built to play for Rock N’ Roll sound then check out this older blog post. Bart’s …
Bart’s First Custom Drum Set Build
I just got this email from a friend in Hungary and wanted to share his experience with you! Bart’s first drum set is a beauty: Bart did an incredible job on building his very first custom drum set. Great job Bart! Below is an email conversation/interview that I had with Bart. He has lots of great drum building tips so …
5 Thoughts on Drum Building Safety
Drum Building Safety Tips 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 here are 5 tips …
What I Learned On My Recent Drum Build
Don’t Miss a Learning Opportunity 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 …
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