{"id":28577,"date":"2025-10-09T17:12:57","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T16:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28577"},"modified":"2025-10-10T05:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T04:30:19","slug":"dnare-drum-builds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28577","title":{"rendered":"SNARE DRUM BUILDS: Stave Snares, Pt. V"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3240-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28572\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3240-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3240-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3240-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3240-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3240.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>My two current snare builds had kind of stalled. Foundering on my inability to cut a neat\/smooth inner bearing edge\u2026 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3241-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28573\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3241-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3241-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3241-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3241-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3241.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>I finally got around to addressing this issue. And the results, whilst far from perfect, are both tolerable and encouraging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Snare #1, above, is probably coming along better, in this respect. Both require a lot more fiddling and fettling. But snare #2 needs much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3242-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28574\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3242-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3242-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3242-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3242-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3242.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Snare# 2.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The shell wall thickness and the smoothness of the inner bearing-edge bevel, on snare #2, are much more varied. I\u2019m thinking about what kind of jigs or tools I might make to help sort this out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Snare #2 also needs the outer bearing-edge enlarging a bit, so the two bevels meet in a \u2018sharp\u2019 edge\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3243-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28575\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3243-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3243-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3243-768x576.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3243-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3243.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The reason I was finally able to get these inner bearing-edges cut, is that I was able to mount my new Katsu palm-router in the jig originally made for my older Titan plunge-router. As pictured below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3237-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-28576\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3237-768x1024.jpg 768w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3237-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3237-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/img_3237.jpg 1500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Experimenting with a bearing and various stops, I finally came up with a method that appears to work. Albeit, as already noted, far from perfectly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My two current snare builds had kind of stalled. Foundering on my inability to cut a neat\/smooth inner bearing edge\u2026 I finally got around to addressing this issue. And the results, whilst far from perfect, are both tolerable and encouraging. Snare #1, above, is probably coming along better, in this respect. Both require a lot &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=28577\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;SNARE DRUM BUILDS: Stave Snares, Pt. 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