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Beautiful quality stuff there. Stunning finishes, & I especially like the wood finishing touches to the throw. Quality!
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Stavebuilder, how about a run down of what they are made of? I think I recognize the bottom one as your Wenge and Maple, but the Wenge no longer looks like Wenge. Or did you build another with a similar spline design?

Stunning craftmanship. This settles my argument in the Saviour drums thread, guys who assemble and finish Keller shells and call themselves "Custom Drum Builders", in my eyes they are assembler finishers and have no right to the title. You sir, own the title.
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Thank you, fellas, for the compliments.

The first one is a 14X6V1/4 quarterswan bubings with maple rerings and birch inserts.
The second snare is a 14X6.5X3/8 walnut with integrated rerings.
The third one is also walnut 14X6X1/4 and has maple rerings and beech keys.
Goon, you are right. Here is the wenge and walnut shell you were thinking of.
Regarding the builder vs. assembler debate; personally it doesn't matter to me who calls themselves what. I know (and you know of) a number of well known "assemblers" who have ever right to call themselves builders even though they don't build their own shells. They have plenty of skill. To me it's just semantics, but still, I thank you for the compliments.
 

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Just finished this one up for a friend that doing a multi-band festival in Bakersfield and then he's off to record in Oregon for a few weeks with it. Its a 6.5X14 made of Peruvian walnut, it has beech keys, maple and bubinga re-rings and my signature modified Trick strainer.
 

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Stevebuilder - what a beauty! Love everything about it. Those little accents on the strainer do look nice.
 
This thread is full of so much win it's unbelievable. Well done by all.

Here's a couple I took to the Chicago show last weekend:

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(there are several thousand more pics in the gallery section at staufferpercussion.com if ya need more drum porn) (-;
 
stavebuilder said:
Just finished this one up for a friend that doing a multi-band festival in Bakersfield and then he's off the record in Oregon for a few weeks with it. Its a 6.5X14 made of Peruvian walnut, it has beech keys, maple and bubings re-rings and my signature modified Trick strainer.
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Totally mindblowing. The inside of your drum looks better than the outside of most drums I have seen. The attention to detail is stunning - right down to the wooden knob on the throwoff.
 
stavebuilder said:
Just finished this one up for a friend that doing a multi-band festival in Bakersfield and then he's off the record in Oregon for a few weeks with it. Its a 6.5X14 made of Peruvian walnut, it has beech keys, maple and bubings re-rings and my signature modified Trick strainer.
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Wow, just when I think I've seen the nicest drum I've ever seen...and those modified Trick stainers are very cool.

The only problem I see w/these snares is that we usually have to put a coated batter head on them and then you can't see inside.
 
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Totally mindblowing. The inside of your drum looks better than the outside of most drums I have seen. The attention to detail is stunning - right down to the wooden knob on the throwoff.
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Big Foot said:
Wow, just when I think I've seen the nicest drum I've ever seen...and those modified Trick stainers are very cool.

The only problem I see w/these snares is that we usually have to put a coated batter head on them and then you can't see inside.
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Thank you for the compliments guys, It's very much appreciated.

As for not being able to see the inside because of the coated batter head, flip it over when you want to look at the inside, most snare side heads are clear:)

It is funny that you mention that though, The customer that it went to usually goes with the Remo black suede snare side head. I'm more of an Evans guy the I put an Evans Symphonic snare side head on it which has a very thin very fine coating in it and he liked it a lot, but now you cant see through either side.
 
Yeah, I started, just discovered, the Remo Renaissance snare bottoms, they are similar to the evans symphony I have been told. Really thin, and sound great. I finished a snare last night, and have committed to assembling my cherry stave this weekend, which brings me to 8 snares I dont really need lol.

I will do a group shot when I am done. Won't come close to Michael's, but most of mine are customs in some form or another.
 
Here is my somewhat custom kit, the acrylic snare is 100% custom by Casey Drums, other than that just a re wrap on my shells:
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Here's a few more I've built:

Honduras rosewood:

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Teak:

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Pau Amarillo:

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Bubinga:

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This purpleheart w/ 24k Gold hardware got a favorable review in MD:

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And a drumkit from Ash:

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A cool black and orange snare completed recently :)

P.s. looks SOOOOOOO much better in real life. Imagine the orange being a lot brighter. Gloss orange in the center. Matt Black.

14" x 8"
12mm Thick Maple Stave Shell
 

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stavebuilder said:
Just finished this one up for a friend that doing a multi-band festival in Bakersfield and then he's off to record in Oregon for a few weeks with it. Its a 6.5X14 made of Peruvian walnut, it has beech keys, maple and bubinga re-rings and my signature modified Trick strainer.
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These are some of the most gorgeous drums I have ever seen. Incredible work!
 
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