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thatguykalem
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Make an entire kit out of the material used for drum heads XD
About a month or so ago, I was bored during church and started writing down materials that I thought could possibly be used to make drum shells, of varying possible quality and sound palette. Here are some:
Cherry
Walnut
Bamboo
Hickory
Pine
Plastic(or resin, whatever)
Since I haven't actually heard a lot of these or even seen some of them, I don't know precisely what they would sound like. So, here is the place to discuss the sounds and give new material ideas.
I'd like to hear a drum carved from a whalebone.
With the skin of this guy who owes me $1700.00 as the drumhead.
Personally removed by me.
Couldn't it be welded/"melted" together? It would theoretically be seamless.
nope on that too lol, lexan will instantly start bubbling and separting if you heat it.
So lexan (of a certain thickness) is bulletproof, but it sounds like you can put a hot poker through it?
For lexan to be bulletproof it would have to be of a thickness so great that constructing a drumshell out of it at that thickness would probably be impractical. A hot poker will go through it but the immediate area around the hole would bubble up (My idiot cooking staff at my restaurant constantly ruin lexan pans by microwaving them. The lexan itself is microwave safe, but the contents get to boing point and then the pans bubble up and crack). We use drills to bore holes in the lexan pan tops so we can hang them. Again, i think a lexan seamless drum shell would be possible by forming it in a mold.
How about PVC pipe? Anyone try to make octobans out of 6" pvc pipe before?
A springform mold? That sounds practically like melting it into a shell form, if heating it up entirely and pressing it into a mold is what's happening.
Ceramic is good. A kit would be heavy and very breakable, though.
I'm still waiting for inflatable drum sets (complete with puncture kit) to hit the market. That would be nice for storage and lugging.
I wonder what ceramic-shelled drums would sound like?