gwaco
Senior Member
hi all , yes i'm at it again ,which is why i have been somewhat scarce lately. for those that remember toward the end of 2009 i put together a snare for jennifers teacher casey grillo to show our apprecation for all hes done for her .
well that snare has worked so well for him and has become his workhorse snare that he asked me to build him another snare , this time a piccolo because that is one type he doesn't have . well he supplied me with the shell (old dixon) and some hardware bits (lugs) and gave me the green light to do whatever i wanted to do with it ( maybe a bad mistake on his part ! ) so here is the progress of it so far . i am really hoping to have it done before he leaves for the kamelot european tour the 17th of march , but i don't know if thats gonna happen .
the first pic is how the shell was given to me and the rest from there forward . originally he had it set up to do the lugs in 8 rows of 2 lugs but the hoops were bottoming out on the lug bases way before the heads reached any tension, so i had to come up with something else which you see in the next pics . the lugs run in a single row with them being equally spaced and each lug set in opposite orientation . the biggest problem with this is that a lug needs to sit right where the strainer and but plate go so i had to make a bracket that would let the strainer clear the lug . mind you that the lug has been severely altered along with the strainer . the strainer is a pretty basic piccolo strainer that just about every drum builder website sells but i had to gut it and basically rebuild it from scratch with a few obvious things added !
in keeping with my idea about building something never seen before i decided to add a little personal touch to the shell and decided to cut out casey's name in the shell , ( don't worry the letter A will have a center to it , i just didn't put it in yet ) once he saw it he loved it and even though i am not sure how this will sound he wants them open to act as air vents . i do have a secondary plan in case the sound is not what he wants but i also think it looks pretty cool seeing thru the shell , we'll find out soon !
Enough with the babble , on with the pics !
well that snare has worked so well for him and has become his workhorse snare that he asked me to build him another snare , this time a piccolo because that is one type he doesn't have . well he supplied me with the shell (old dixon) and some hardware bits (lugs) and gave me the green light to do whatever i wanted to do with it ( maybe a bad mistake on his part ! ) so here is the progress of it so far . i am really hoping to have it done before he leaves for the kamelot european tour the 17th of march , but i don't know if thats gonna happen .
the first pic is how the shell was given to me and the rest from there forward . originally he had it set up to do the lugs in 8 rows of 2 lugs but the hoops were bottoming out on the lug bases way before the heads reached any tension, so i had to come up with something else which you see in the next pics . the lugs run in a single row with them being equally spaced and each lug set in opposite orientation . the biggest problem with this is that a lug needs to sit right where the strainer and but plate go so i had to make a bracket that would let the strainer clear the lug . mind you that the lug has been severely altered along with the strainer . the strainer is a pretty basic piccolo strainer that just about every drum builder website sells but i had to gut it and basically rebuild it from scratch with a few obvious things added !
in keeping with my idea about building something never seen before i decided to add a little personal touch to the shell and decided to cut out casey's name in the shell , ( don't worry the letter A will have a center to it , i just didn't put it in yet ) once he saw it he loved it and even though i am not sure how this will sound he wants them open to act as air vents . i do have a secondary plan in case the sound is not what he wants but i also think it looks pretty cool seeing thru the shell , we'll find out soon !
Enough with the babble , on with the pics !
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