This is my one of a kind DW Prototype Oak Stave kit!
Sounds huge, is quite heavy, but oh, so cool!
The hoops on the bass drum is maple.
It's very cool that the shells are scoped out, the re-rings are a part of the shells!
Prototype DW that's just nuts?! Are those one ply shells? Did they use the super solid technique on those shells? Loop us in if you ever do a vid or audio sample. I'm totally geeked out.
If those are stave.. then they are sectioned shells Jeff. However,.. he states they have the build in re-rings.. just like the Microwaved Super-Solid shells they use for snares.
Here he put alot more photos. I wonder who is the shell builder.
http://www.pearldrummersforum.com/showthread.php?259031-My-new-DW-prototype-stave-shell-Oak-kit!
I appreciate the link. I have an SS snare, and I'm feeling those oak drums look microwaved.
Now let's see...
I have some pictures from the showroom, and I might have been wrong...
There are more than three kits! The Mahogany kit I never got a picture on! The maple one is stain in ebony, and there is another maple kit on tube, and perhaps another one beside it!
Anyway, from what John Good said the shells were made by a conga maker in Thailand, who supposedly is the best around. The shells are stave, and the scoped out, as he put it.
Great sizes and specs! Congrats on a sweet dream kit.Here is my brand-new DW Collector's kit: black diamond finish ply w/ black chrome hardware.
Here is my brand-new DW Collector's kit: black diamond finish ply w/ black chrome hardware.
The sizes:
7x13 black nickel over brass snare
7x10 rack tom, maple X-shell
8x12 rack tom, maple X-shell
12x14 suspended floor tom, maple VLX
14x16 suspended floor tom, maple VLX
20x22 virgin kick, maple X-shell
20x22 virgin kick, maple X-shell
I know the pics are low-resolution, I will post better ones once I get everything set up. Now all I need to do is build a killer looking and functional rack system (most likely cobbled together with DW 9000 series odds and ends).