Fuzrock
Silver Member
It was a couple of weeks ago I was looking through the scratch and dent inventory on musiciansfriend.com and came across this Chinese OCDP snare drum. The description stated that the shell was cracked. There was no picture of the actual drum with the cracked shell. All they had was this stock picture.
It was only $84 with free shipping so I got it. I’ve always wanted to build a custom snare drum and I considered this to be a great opportunity to do that. The die cast hoops alone on this drum are probably worth the $84 and I’d have all of the other hardware, too. Here’s a picture of the crack when I received the drum only one day later.
Now all I needed was a shell. I’ve always wanted a thicker shelled snare drum and started looking around on Precision Drums website. I called them up and they were very helpful. I pulled the trigger on a 6.5x14 15 ply shell. I sent them one of the lugs because I wanted them to do all of the drilling. I also had them wrap it in black glass glitter with two silver glass glitter stripes. Here’s a picture that they took of the shell before they boxed it up to ship.
I think it turned out great. I should have it by the end of the week.
It was only $84 with free shipping so I got it. I’ve always wanted to build a custom snare drum and I considered this to be a great opportunity to do that. The die cast hoops alone on this drum are probably worth the $84 and I’d have all of the other hardware, too. Here’s a picture of the crack when I received the drum only one day later.
Now all I needed was a shell. I’ve always wanted a thicker shelled snare drum and started looking around on Precision Drums website. I called them up and they were very helpful. I pulled the trigger on a 6.5x14 15 ply shell. I sent them one of the lugs because I wanted them to do all of the drilling. I also had them wrap it in black glass glitter with two silver glass glitter stripes. Here’s a picture that they took of the shell before they boxed it up to ship.
I think it turned out great. I should have it by the end of the week.