Outlaw Drums
Have you ever noticed what type of shell your
drums are built with? If you are like
most drummers, as long as the drum sounds good, you don’t care what it’s made
out of. However, here are a few tips and
some information to make you more aware of what you are buying so next time you
go to the music store, you know exactly what you are getting for your money.
There are
two main types of shells: 1) Ply Shell, and 2) Stave shell. Ply shells are more popular than stave shells
because of the more affordable pricing options mainly due to the price of the
wood and speed at which they can manufacture ply shell drums. Essentially, the way a ply shell drum is
built is by taking a long sheet of wood (almost like a giant sized roll of tape
except there is wood instead of tape), which is then measured and cut to fit
the size of the drum to be made. From
there, the builder has to stress and steam the wood to be able to manipulate it
and bend, fold, and mold the straight wood into the circular drum shape you see
it when you purchase it. A downside to
this method is that all that stress on the wood impacts its sound and if not
done carefully can produce a canned sound rather than letting the wood breathe
and speak for itself.
Now on to
stave shells! This is a much more time
consuming process and as a result is more costly than ply shells, but the sound
you get out of stave shell drums doesn’t even compare to ply shell. Stave shell building includes taking small
square pieces of wood and gluing them together piece by piece until the drum is
finished (see picture above for segments in the snare drum). There is no stressing or manipulating the
wood giving you the most natural sound straight from the heart of the
drum.
Outlaw
Drums has been building stave shells drums from the time it started, but is proud
to recently present you its new affordable ply shell drum line! Both ply and stave shell have their pros and cons
but lucky for you Outlaw Drums offer both types of drums at the highest of
quality and will work with you on the price to find the drums of your dreams!
-Mahru Madjidi-
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