Hammer Knocker Beaters Sale! Life time warrenty

Hammer Knocker End Grain beater.  First time ever we have offered a buy one get one free beater Ending July 25 (Saturday Night) Buy HERE!   Outlaw Drums is proud to present a Revolutionary new design in kick drum beaters that will get you noticed!  Using End grain boards much like chopping blocks, gives a harder, deeper sound. Each comes with a Polished Stainless Steel rod, Plus a replaceable felt pad. The wood is born of the same first generation heart pine wood; The wood that has become the signature of the company, these Hammers provide a larger kick presence than ordinary felt beaters. The Hammers incorporate two different angled impact sides that provide two different impact results.  One side remains round while the other is angled on a perfect 9 Degrees to meet the kick drum head straight on.  Meeting the kick head “straight on” provides maximum coverage and contact with the head, increasing the effect on the strike-zone.  Utilizing an angled beater also extends the life of the drum head. Buy it once, play it forever with Life Time Warranty!! To buy click HERE     Just being around this old lumber feels like it's telling you a story of where it's been. Even when the saw blade starts to cut the wood, the fragrance of the wood fills the air, and you can't help but wonder about the lives touched by this lumber. Every piece is different in its own way. Some with old bolt and nail holes with the square holes left from the old cut nails. Others still have the original saw kerfs. These unique boards are one-of-a-kind and when they are gone they are gone. It takes about 80 years for the wood to gain that reddish color. It’s getting harder and harder to find. Old tobacco barns, plantation homes, mills or bridges, built before the 1900's, are about the only places you can find it. The process of reclaiming this wood can be painstaking. The collection of these boards has to be carefully executed and every board has to be checked with a metal detector to ensure that no nails are hit with the planer knives. Because of the slow growth rate, Long leaf pines were not replanted. Lumber cut today is referred to as new heart pine.

You get what you pay for!

Just finding an affordable price for a drum kit is hard. When you find a drum kit do you want a drum kit you don't really care about that costs $1500, that you have to replace every year, or do you want a kit to pass down the gift of music to your kids and their kids.  

Let's compare wood working items if you buy a hand built table from solid wood it would cost between $1500-$3500 vs a $200-$600  particleboard table you can from the local chain furniture store. Yeah you can eat off of both a they both serve the purpose; however you obviously get what you pay for. A hand built dinner table is a piece of furniture that is a center piece when entertaining guests, not just an assembly line made run of the mill table anyone can buy at any branch furniture store.  

So what is the difference when a drummer is picking out that kit to be the center of attention. You need to compare apples to apples. First of all there is absolutely nothing wrong with buying a low cost drum kit that is built on an assembly line one after the other. Which is perfectly fine. Just know what the differences are before choosing an assembly line instrument in comparison to a hand made instrument.  Outlaw Drums are custom hand made instruments build from the love the music.  No two drums are alike in appearance or sound, they are close, but the fact human hands construct every Outlaw Drum no two are alike.  Outlaw Drums is not the only company who build drums one at a time by hand with precise care and precision, Dunnett, Craviatto Angel, Stainbrige, Carolina, many more are a few different high end custom drum companies.  Yes from a distance a table looks like a table. But take a look under a big chain store table. Big difference between a laminated veneer table and a solid handcrafted Morrison and  tendon tables. The same with drums it looks the same from a distance but flip it over get close and really look at the construction. Not to say companies don't put a high price for name brand sake even on lower end products.  The real custom driven companies take pride in every build and the end product will show the passion the maker has for his instrument.

Forest fire Segmented drum kit.

Forest Fire Limited Edition Drum Sets!

Wonderful news everyone! Outlaw Drums is now offering limited segmented solid wood edition Forest Fire drum sets! Only 10 of these drum sets are going to be built a year so contact Outlaw Drums quickly if you are interested because once they are sold out, no more will ever be built! Each is signed and dated. 

You may have seen the Outlaw Drums Forest Fire Snare drum at your local Guitar Center, but until now, Outlaw Drums has never made an entire drum set with the gorgeous Forest Fire finish! The Forest Fire drum is one of Outlaw Drums’ most popular models, and for good reason.  Not only does the drum have a classic wood look that Outlaw Drums is known for, but the Forest Fire finish has a sharp, charred, rustic look that makes it stand out among other drums in its class. The Forest Fire drums are built from select Yellow  pine wood that makes the drum sound as classic as it looks. With the Forest Fire kit, Drummers have many options with tuning and can tune it high for a nice “crack” or “pop”, or low for the deeper “thud” sound.  The  Beautiful wood gives each drum a unique voice that is loud and will cut through any venue and sounds beautiful when recorded or played live.  All in all, the Forest Fire kit is a work of art that is built for the drummer that is looking for a sound and look that is different and unique; and the Forest Fire kit delivers on all those grounds and more!

Visit Outlaw Drums web site at www.outlawdrums.com  to make further sales inquiries.  Hurry while you still have a chance to get your very own one of a kind Forest Fire Outlaw Drums limited edition Forest Fire Drum. To Buy Click HERE  

How to recycle old church pews into a drum kit.

 Outlaw Drums

From Church Pew to Drum Set

            Outlaw Drums has distinguished itself from other drum companies through their use of recycled wood to build their classic drums.  Instead of cutting down trees at a time where it is critical for the world to become more eco friendly, Outlaw Drums uses old buildings, structures, or any other wood they can find that is no longer used or needed, and turns them into their classic drums.  As they say, “One man's trash is another man's treasure”, and this is nothing short of the inspiration on which Outlaw Drums functions. This method of using recycled wood isn’t just environmentally friendly, rather, the aged wood allows for the grains of the wood to tighten up making for a beautiful and unique sound with each drum built.  Every piece of wood used it unique and has its own story, thus, once built into a drum, that uniqueness is carried over to the drum, giving it a one of a kind voice and story that is different from every other drum in the world.

            In 2015 Outlaw Drums took this concept to another level when Gillionville Baptist Church in Albany, GA was in need of a drum set for the worship services. That’s when Michael Outlaw took old church pew that came from a church in Calhoun County GA, and with a lot of hard work and some incredible skills, Mr. Outlaw turned that old pew into a gorgeous one of a kind Outlaw Drum set. That same drum set is now used at the Gillionville Baptist Church and allowed another opportunity to serve!  Click on the link below to see the beautiful rejuvenation and transformation of this old church pew into a gorgeous one of a kind Outlaw Drum set.  Watch Michael Outlaw as he removes 30 year old gum from the pew, cranks out the nails, and creates a work of art for Gillionville Baptist Church!   WATCH HERE!! https://youtu.be/2M1gQEZji18

PRODUCT REVIEW: Curly Pine.

TRANSFORMING THE ABNORMAL INTO BEAUTY

Southern yellow pine with all its desirable features is not famous as a “showy” wood.  However, occasionally a board does show up with a wavy characteristic that can be called showy.  This wavy or erratic grain is commonly referred to as “curly”. This curly effect is more common in maple lumber, but from time to time this pattern will make its way to the Southern yellow pine.  On the whole Southern curly pine is not a standard item in an average lumber yard.  Very seldom seen and used even less in the construction of many items.  Very little is known about the relative occurrence of curly pine.  The occurrence is sporadic and uncommon.  Whether the wood is produced by the abnormal growth of a tree, if it’s unnatural or if its irregular growth is caused by injury, insects, birds, mechanical damage or an inherited characteristic, is unknown.  However, this abnormal growth is not usually found in small trees or small logs, only in old-growth mature timber.  With the small production of this type of wood, what can be done?  Build a doorway, a common decorative panel or something else to just look at, no!  In steps Michael Outlaw and his dream for something different and special, he thrives on finding this abnormal lumber and transforming it into a beautiful creation.  Michael has a knack for finding this lumber finding these boards in odd places.  Using these boards to create stunningly beautiful pieces of art, so why not have something truly unique and beautiful to behold and have the ability to produce beautiful sounds.

Outlaw Drums, American Wood Reborn, creating beauty from the unusual.

Derrick Wilkerson.