Some say I go a bit over the top

[Roc Stone]

Hey Guy's.

This is my latest drum. I've been using it for about he last 3-4 months now so I thought I'd make a vid and give you blokes a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl558wWovns

[Speedbag]

Wow, what a THICK drum you have!

Does the video really reflect the timbre of the sound? I would think a board that thick would have a deeper, fuller sound than this video reflects. Perhaps it the video quality or sound processes in the upload that makes it sound higher.

[Roc Stone]

Without going too much into the 'timbre' effect; when I built the drum I was striving to achieve something that had a resonating sound, trying to get some type of harmony. I do get a different pitch out of all of my bags and I am hearing several different pitches and waves of vibration out of the everlast B/H swivel.

The flange holding the B/H swivel has steadily (over time) elongated on all of the planes, more on the forwards, backwards than on the left and the right. What was a hole is now in the early stages of looking more like a 4 point star. In my opinion this is a major contributing factor with the pitch of our 'click' friend in these types of swivels,the click sound is probably louder than the bag hitting the drum.

The drum is simply made up of 3 tiers of 25mm marine ply which I jig-sawed into 33" disks, then glued em & screwed em. The plan was to get a 1" tapper, facing down, cut off the profile, hoping it might add to whatever sound I can get out of this drum. I have since found out that it would take a CNC machine to cut an edge 75mm or > thick, so thats been put on hold 4 the moment. I'd like to finish it off with a deco krypton green skin and a mahogany profile, I did consider a picture of nice girlie bits such as DD breasts or a nice bubble butt G-string and that may still happen, but for now my next mission is to put a tapper down that profile.

[Tim]

Looks very thick, that is attached direct to the ceiling ?

[Roc Stone]

Na! Just screwed to the wall.