sharkythesharkdogg
is a Level 80 Dancer
Blood In The Water

Call me a loser then

I've been hiding away in my work, basically. What sort of work have you been doing?

Nearly at the end of the Christmas holidays. Now halfway through my degree... I'm beginning to miss things already.

How is the new house?

Hey Sharky, how are things going?

Yeah I saw that haha xD

http://9gag.com/gag/a1ZnmQD

That's awesome. Not sure what I'll be boing for a lathe yet. It's the part I've looked into the least in detail but will probably be the most complicated. Building a furnace to melt the metal and building the mold will probably be the easiest/moststraight forward parts.

My ideal would be building a 3-axis CNC mill eventually, probably, but for now a lathe that I can use to turn the inside and outside of the shell, as well as cut the edges of the drum to a 45° angle would be sufficient. I've got some ideas rattli g around in my brain for now though. Part of me wishes I could afford/had the space for just buying a lathe, but building or buying it's going to be a while before this is done.

Not sure on the lathe. I've got a book on it and found some other plans and resources on the old interwebs. One of which claims it can be done for as little as a few hundred depending on the sort of scrap you can find. I may try that one simply because they claim it can be scaled up in size relatively easily, and I'm just crazy enough to think that if I can make a snare then the next logical step will be a full kit.

As for sound, bronze drums are a bit darker than steel. Tend to have overtones over a wider frequency range. Cast drums also tend to be pretty sensitive and respond well at all volumes I've heard. They're heavy though. A cast bronze snare in the size I want will easily hit the 25lbs range minimum. And, interestingly, Danny Carey of Tool has a bronze kit he used for quite a few years. Apparently the bass drums weighed around 100lbs. This endeavour certainly isn't for the faint of heart.

He's a pretty happy puppy. Loves having another doggy in the house. Keeps him from being bored when I'm not around.

I've got in my head that I'm going to make myself a cast bronze snare drum. Probably because I like doing crazy things. I assume you encourage my insanity.

PS: not sure what I'm going to do about lathing the thing to it's final shape and size. Probably going to "have to" build myself a lathe. For reasons.

Things are going pretty well, actually. I'm in a pretty even-keeled place right now in life.