Hand Made 36 Ply Maple Hoops on Custom Snare
36 Ply Maple Hoops
Each maple hoop carefully handcrafted, 36 ply, 100% maple drum hoops made right here in CA.
These are Yamaha style, but these hoops hide the metal rim of the drum head.
Maple hoops give your snare a deep warm wooden sound.
Here's a list of artists that use maple hoops: Billy Cobham, Anton Fig, Steve Gadd, Akiro Jimbo, Elvin Jones, Airto Moreira.
Your rim shot is your drum stick on wood, not on metal, and it gives it a very natural and "fat" sound, more like a wood block.
These hoops are way very durable and fit tight around your drum.
feel free to call me or email me with any questions.
I can make these hoops custom sizes for toms and snares.
36 Ply Maple Hoops
36 Ply Maple Hoops
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MCD Hoops on a Black Panther
MCD Hoops on a Black Panther
Black Panther w/ MCD Hoops
13" snare
13" snare
Oak Snare
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14" x 5.5" Birds-Eye Maple
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Custom Snare
Adam Yauch
This is the Beastie Boys's first appearance in Rolling Stone Mag
Design By Spectrum 6
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8 Ply Maple Custom Kit in Ebony Stain
Raw Shells eager to become drums
Stained and Buffed
Drilled for Hardware
Ready to play
The touch of gold isn't bad...
Cisco's Kit Set Up
VSS Keller MAple Shell
Stained and Buffed
Bearing Edges Cut
Nice edges make all the difference in sound
Nice Drilling
There is no blowout at all on the backs of these holes
Inside View
Custom 20"x18" Bass drum
Custom 20"x18" Bass drum
Nice grain shot
Custom 20"x18" Bass drum
Cisco's Kit Set Up
Cisco's Kit Set Up
Camco Snare Drum Restoration
Camco Badge
Ludwig Throw off
Reinforcement Ring detaching
Reinforcement Ring detaching
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shell size reduction
Yamaha Maple Custom
12" tom now a 12 x 8, cut down shell, recut bearing edges, and re-drilled for lugs.
The Bearing edges came out pristine.
Yamaha Maple Custom
The old lug holes were left for now. Honestly they sound amazing with the holes. this tom is now 10" x 7.5"
The Bearing edges came out pristine.
Yamaha Maple Custom
Assembled
Yamaha Maple Custom
Here you can see the old lug holes
Yamaha Maple Custom
Here you can see the old lug holes
Damaged Shell Repair
14" Pacific Snare
cut it down and re-cut the bearing edges
14" Pacific Snare
14" Pacific Snare
14" Pacific Snare
14" Pacific Snare
Now a half inch shorter
14" Pacific Snare
Reconditioned 1999 DW Maple Snare
Before
This was the craigslist ad picture
Before
This was the craigslist ad picture
Shell Damage
This picture shows the damage to the wrap. The lugs actually dug into 2 plys of the drum =-(
DW Snare
it's legit
Hardware removed
Getting ready to unwrap.
Wrap Removed
The wrap came off nicely, it was the glue that posed a timely chore.
Ebony Stained DW
I opted for an ebony stain to contrast the chrome hardware. I really like how it turned out.
Ebony Stained DW
This side shows more the grain of the maple
Vintage Gretsch Restoration Project
3 Different Gretsch Badges
The badge on the left is the Stop Sign Badge from the 70's, the middle is a Limited Edition Badge from the 70's (note it says DRUM MAKERS SINCE 1883) and the badge on the right I'm not sure about yet.
Rack Tom Sticker
Amazingly this tom shell is guaranteed for life!!
Bass Drum Sticker
Vince's 3 piece Gretsch Kit
He to remove the wrap and apply a blue green stain with a high gloss lacquer finish
Down to the wood
Rack Tom
Here's a hole that needs filling
Rack Tom
there was black paint underneath =-?
Rack Tom
1st coat of paint.
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13" tom
camera phone pic.
Floor Tom with 3 layers of wrap!
Vince refers to it as archaeological digging!
Floor Tom
2 layers to go
Floor Tom Original wrap
Nice vintage wrap
Floor Tom
Mahogany outer
Floor Tom
Laborious
Floor Tom
Mahogany... didn't see that coming
Floor Tom
Filling the grain
Bass Drum
with flash, color's more true
Bass Drum
w/out flash, looks too blue in this photo
Tama Toms
1965 Ludwig "Club Date" Restoration Project
14" Floor Tom
mid-60's keystone badge serial number 132794
12" Tom
mid-60's keystone badge serial number 129181
Cleaned and buffed once
Note the difference of color in the bass drum. It has had more exposure to the elements.
Bass Drum
Whew!
Floor Tom
not too too bad
Bass Drum
Bass Drum Lug Screw
Gives an idea of how much deterioration was on THE INSIDE of the drum.
Bass Drum Lug
Scary pitting (like termites to wood!)
Bass Drum Edge
Bad
Bass Drum Edge
coming apart and flat
Bass Drum
I few of these tension rods needed straightening, luckily none broke.
Bass Drum Hardware
On the left you can see a bent tension rod.
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14" Floor Tom
Rusty Leg
12" Tom
This tom has some deep gouges in the wrap.
12" Tom
There wasn't a break from all the rust
Doctors Office
The bass drum was splitting badly and had a flat spot. I cut some radius jigs to get it back to round.
Bass Drum Edge Clamping
Here is a close up of the clamping to get the bass drum edge back together and round.
Cut edges
re-cut and sanded edges
Bass Drum & Floor Tom Hardware
All of the Bass Drum hardware is severely deteriorated but now functioning and clean.
Cleaned up hardware
notice the dull back row of hardware from the bass drum
Bass Drum Claws
Not shiny but functioning and clean
Bass Drum Claw
This is the worst of the worst. The deterioration was severe. There were 3 that were fused together by rust. With the help of wd 40 and work I was able to save two.
Lugs
The dull looking lugs on the right were on the bass drum. The bass drum was by far in the most need of work, drum and hardware. These lugs had the worst pitting I have ever seen!
Muffle levers
These came out very nice!
Floor Tom Leg Holders
These had rust and pitting too but came out shiny
Finished Toms
Finished 12" Tom
This wrap is called "Blue Strata"
Finished 12" Tom
Finished 12" Tom Inside View
Floor Tom Finished
Floor Tom Finished
Floor Tom Finished Inside View
20" Bass drum
New maple hoops and hardware in the front. Note the back are original tension rods with knobs and claws
20" Bass drum with Papillon
Scout is wondering when it's time to go home.
20" Bass drum
Inside view, new edges and paint.
Together at last
New heads tuned and ready to play!
You can notice the difference in color in the bass drum. This tells us it's had more exposure to the elements.
Brian's Restored Kit Set Up
Brian's Restored Kit Set Up
Restored 1976/77 Rogers Floor Tom
1976 or 1977 16x16 Rogers Floor Tom
This drum had New England White wrap that was peeling and hardware that was rusted with pitting.
On the shell I removed the wrap, removed the glue, sanded , then lacquered.
The hardware took some major elbow grease to get the rust off, the luckily the pitting isn't major.
Rogers Hardware
Here is a close up of the pitting on the hardware.
16x16 Rogers Floor Tom
Breather hole unfilled.
Internal Hardware
Since every single screw and washer was rusted, I replaced them all with rubber washers and news screws. I also repainted the inside an off white to match the outside more (before it was speckled gray).
16x16 Rogers Floor Tom
I like how this drum has a mosaic of wood grains that meet up.
Striped Tama
Masked Tama Rockstar Bass Drum
This is a Tama Rockstar Bass Drum I had lying around unused. I opted to remove the wrap and paint some stripes over the poplar shell.
Painted Tama Rockstar Bass Drum
Black paint to accent the long chrome hardware
Painted Tama Rockstar Bass Drum
Masking tape removed
Painted Tama Rockstar Bass Drum
not bad for some cheap black Krylon paint
Painted Tama Rockstar Bass Drum
Another View
Tama Artstar Toms
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