At last, I got this drum in situ, as part of my current drum set up. The rest of the kit is a Catalina Club Jazz four piece.
This snare is 13” x 5”, with the main body comprised of 22 Keruing staves, with White Oak pinstripes, and Pine(?) dots. There are twenty holes around the the drum, and thus no need for a vent.
The drum was finished with about 8-10 coats of clear shellac. She’s sporting a Remo CS dot batter side, and an Evans head snare side.
I played the snare, as part of a complete kit, for the first time today. On Xmas Eve, no less. And, overall, I’m pretty chuffed.
I quite like this view, from below. Here’s a wee gallery of images:
The whole kit needs a lot of attention. And I need to get ‘back in the saddle’, playing wise, as I’ve not played regularly for several years now.
It was great fun to play my first self-built snare drum in the proper full context of a drum set. There’s a way to go to getting it to a place where I’m completely satisfied – tuning, damping, snare settings, head choices, poss’ even modifying the snare bed, etc. – but it’s fab’ to have gotten this far.
And there are more drums being built, waiting in the wings. Exciting times!