eddiehimself
Platinum Member
This SANTAFE snare drum has seriously been rubbish from day 1 but now i'm forced to make yet another thread about it due to the terribleness of what happened with it last night. I've been forced to replace the 14" 10 hole 2.3mm hoops on it because the matt black finish just flaked off with every rimshot. So what did i have to do to get the bottom hoop off? Take the snares out. Herein lies the problem because clearly the GENIUS who designed the throw-off decided to make possibly the most important part, the part that actually holds the snare wire on the throw off mechanism, out of plastic. Now clearly they never banked on the idea of someone actually taking the snares OFF the throw off for whatever reason, like changing the snare side head or anything like that, otherwise they might have realised that it was an utterly stupid idea because the threading is just going to strip and you're going to end up with a throw off that can't even hold the snares on:-
this is the offending item,
and the throw off it was on.
This snare drum in general is seriously a joke. The finish on the hardware doesn't stay on, the bearing edges are badly cut, the camo wrap looks worse than my efforts with fabric and i didn't even use glue, you can twist the air vent bushing and move it about with your fingers, one of the gaskets for the lugs literally just snapped and fell off and now this. A new throw off (with metal threading to hold the snares on) is going to be £25 off highwood so that'll be £60 i've spent on making this what it should have been in the first place and i've got a good mind to ask highwood to make me a new shell while i'm at it, take the lugs off this drum and mail the rest back to santafe in spain with a "polite" letter explaining why i don't want it any more. And to think i could have got a NEW black panther snare for about £20 more than this piece of shit.
this is the offending item,
and the throw off it was on.
This snare drum in general is seriously a joke. The finish on the hardware doesn't stay on, the bearing edges are badly cut, the camo wrap looks worse than my efforts with fabric and i didn't even use glue, you can twist the air vent bushing and move it about with your fingers, one of the gaskets for the lugs literally just snapped and fell off and now this. A new throw off (with metal threading to hold the snares on) is going to be £25 off highwood so that'll be £60 i've spent on making this what it should have been in the first place and i've got a good mind to ask highwood to make me a new shell while i'm at it, take the lugs off this drum and mail the rest back to santafe in spain with a "polite" letter explaining why i don't want it any more. And to think i could have got a NEW black panther snare for about £20 more than this piece of shit.
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