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                   This drum building tips eBook addresses some of the problems I encountered over the past years.  The eBook also contains information on building useful jigs and hand tools for advancing your drum shell building skills and much more.

                    Our educational information contains a lot of drum building tips and techniques you will find useful at understanding the process of building stave drum shells. You should use the ideas contained in this eBook to guide you through the steps to building a better drum shell.

                    A lot of it will depend on what machinery and hand tools you have access to and your woodworking experience. You will find you can be very creative in coming up with a system to build one drum shell with very little machinery and hand tools. This is a seventy five page eBook on stave drum shell building. 

                   Now you can quickly learn from what I have done with the art of stave drum shell building. Drum Building Tips are what a whole lot of builders are looking for. Just try to pick up tips from everyone as you do your research. Below is the index for the eBook.

The following is a section out of the book describing our method for cutting bearing edges.

Cutting Bearing Edges
We will use a router table to cut the bevel for the bearing edges. You will
need a chamfering router bit to cut a 45 degree bevel on the top and bottom of the
drum shell. Be sure to make several passes to cut the bevel on the shell. Take a
small amount off with each pass as this will make a cleaner cut and the work
piece will be easier to control. We will leave a small flat spot on the shell about
1/16” – this is the bearing edge. This is where the drum head comes into contact
with the drum shell.


            There are two common types of bearing edge that we will use. They are
double 45 where the bearing edge is in the center of the shell and the second
would be 45 inside and 90 outside, where the outside just has a slight bevel or
round over cut on it. Each bearing edge will affect the sound of the drum, so
experiment and try them out so you can hear and know the difference.
You can experiment with bearing edges and learn the difference they make
in the sound and action of a drum. A wider bearing edge will dampen the sound
of the drum and a sharper bearing edge will produce an open sound and more
sustain.


            A home made router table for cutting the bearing edges is fine. The router
table should be large enough to support the drum shell and make the work piece
easy to control. You can buy a router table but they are small and will be difficult
to use for drum building. The best thing to do is build your own out of Baltic birch
plywood. You can buy a router table insert which is a good idea or just bolt the
router to the bottom of the table with a cut out for the router bit. See the router
table page for ideas for a router table.

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The following is the index for the eBook

 

Drum Building E Book Index:
Overview
Moisture Content
Drum Shell Layout
Woodworking
Stave or Ply Shell
Quarter Cut or Plain Sawn Lumber
Glue-up Jig
Glue-up
Sanding
Sanding Jig
Sanding Table
Measuring Devices
Cutting Bearing Edges
Cutting Snare Beds
Router Table
Layout and Assembly Table
Drilling Jig
Drilling For Hardware
Curved Scrapers
Curved Sanding Blocks
Table Saw
Jointer
Thickness Planer
Wood Shaper
Finishing
Staining
Buffing
Wet Sanding
Lathe
Inside lathe work
Scroll Chuck
Tailstock
Dust Collection
Web-sites
Outside Calipers
Types of Wood and Sounds
Hardware
                  

    Note:  I am sending all copies of the eBook myself. Good luck with your adventures in drum building.

             

Stave Shell Drum Building Tips By Bud Brownell

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$24.95 US