Drum building projects using drum kits are my favorite projects. why? Because the project moves quickly, you can minimize the effects, and you can get real ideas with stripes, custom drum packaging designs, color combinations, and more.
Needless to say, the drum packaging is very tough. Knocking your kick drum on the club's door handle is not as destructive as using a high-gloss paint finish. Chips and dents in the package with slight scratches? I will catch the scratches!
When I built a large custom company, I packed three to five drum kits a day. So here are some tips.
#1: My favorite choice: design your own drum kit.
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You can send custom designs or even your favorite fabrics for lamination. Honestly, this is the easiest Drum Tower project to ensure that the results are 100% unique drum kits. If you are a graphic designer, then you have no excuses!
#2: Sand before bonding
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You thought you could escape the sandpaper! Polish the back of the drum pack with #320 sandpaper before applying glue. This allows the glue to lock something... and helps create an unstoppable bond.
#3: Precise drum packaging order
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A common mistake in the first drum building order when ordering your package is not precise enough.
When you order, give the exact width and order the length of the drum pack, which is 1.5 inches for all rollers 16 inches in diameter. Any drum with more than 16" items requires a complete laminate [54"] and a patch.
To find out the length of your patch... find the perimeter of the drum shell, add 3", subtract this number 54. Always up. For example, an 18" drum requires a 6" patch [doing math !!].
#4: Bulk your drum packaging
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If you haven't heard of me using the drum building term "ingredients"... it just means putting all the similar drum building activities together.
Once, when I was working at a large custom company, I packed three to five drum kits in one day. This is a lot of measurement, cutting, gluing, rolling, etc.
solution? Handle all events in batches! Whether you're building for a company or building on a smaller scale... you can save a lot of time and hassle with batch processing.
For example, paste all packages immediately. When they are dry, stick all the shells. Wrap all the shells and then use laminating rolls on all the shells. Paste all overlapping seams, then trim any shell wraps, etc.
#5: Using J-Roller
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A often overlooked step in drum construction is the rear drum wrapping process. Most drum masters have huge laminating machines to eliminate the bubble bubbles and help to consolidate the bond.
However, the same effect can be obtained with the handheld J-Roller. Using J-Roller around a stressed drum can greatly help your drum build project. It helps to avoid wrap warping, bubbling, sound insulation [tones disappear from the bubble] and so on.
#6: Let them do the cut
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Let the supplier who ordered the package cut your stripes. Letting them do this can reduce the necessary tools in the Drum Tower project, and also ensure that if someone messes up, it is not you, it will be replaced.
However, if you are stuck in some crazy drum ideas and want to cut yourself... straight edge cutting fixtures can get the job done.
#7: Wrap your Tom and Drum Hoop
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A cool drum building technique is to wrap your wooden hoop. You can use traditional wooden hoops, wooden hoops with T-bar holes and regular three-flange ferrules [using different glues such as "Gorilla Glue"].
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