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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 11:20 am
by noise&light
bomberz1qr20 wrote:In assembly:
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Final, with a better strainer:
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Yeah! Truly beautiful.

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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:25 pm
by benadrian_Archive
It's finally done. Very cool!

Ben Adrian

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Posted: Mon Jan 01, 2007 8:46 pm
by rocker654_Archive
noise&light wrote:
burun wrote:
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Carmine also has a less-talented brother.


Doug Henning? Gallagher?

Jeez, I'm bad at off-the-cuff drummer recognition.


I think his nickname is "Downderroad" Appice.

Vanilla Fudge, indeed.

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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:46 am
by that damned fly_Archive
burun wrote:
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Carmine also has a less-talented brother.


i recall a time when for some reason people gave a shit what tom morello thought. ranting and raving about gw.

fox news found a rockstar who backed the pres.

it was that turd, carmine.

who would give a shit what he had to say?

p.s.- your drum looks better than most hardwood floors i've seen. nice going.

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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:12 am
by davesec_Archive
the snare looks really nice

was it already stained or did you do all that yourself? i wish it didn't have -raeder- or whatever burnt into the size

also how do the lugs sound? i'm curious because the shells are blockboard or whatever you call that and the lugs are so long, i would have thought you'd want to go with really small lugs and not have the crossbar connecting the top to the bottom.

how deep is it? 6.5?

either way it's really beautiful. good luck finding a 15" case for that or whatever!!

i've been trying to turn crappy shells into better sounding ones..

i recently bought an old westbury for $100, took off the wrap, took off the glue (drummers - if you've done this before i'm interested to know how you're removing wrap glue from old kits.. i'm using paint remover + a hairdryer plus really fine sandpaper)

at the bigger home hardware stores here i asked what you can do to 'improve' wood. i don't know if that was the right question, but they have a compacting machine that seems to mush the plys together so they're all a consistent width, without cracking the wood or anything like that. and then of course you can re-bevel the edges super cheap there so i have been gearing everything to 60 degrees (45 seems standard i think? i read that 60 has way more tone but who knows)

anyway also what sort of staining/varnishing/shellac'ing techniques are people using?

here's the only picture of the westbury i refinished that i can find, and it's not very good (taken live at some show)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v487/ ... b14big.jpg

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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 10:24 am
by burun_Archive
davesec wrote:i wish it didn't have -raeder- or whatever burnt into the size


It's burned in there because that's his name.

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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:05 am
by davesec_Archive
well no offense but that makes it worse

i might as well brand 'dave' into all my clothes

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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:09 am
by John C3_Archive
davesec wrote:well no offense but that makes it worse

i might as well brand 'dave' into all my clothes


Why? Are you bored?

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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:11 am
by noise&light
davesec wrote:well no offense but that makes it worse

i might as well brand 'dave' into all my clothes



If you go to the effort of having your clothing custom made then perhaps you should put your name onto them.

People go through the effort of putting instruments together because they want something that looks and sounds different than "off the rack" items. Personalizing it doesn't seem like such an unusual thing to me.

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Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2007 11:29 am
by benadrian_Archive
davesec wrote:well no offense but that makes it worse

i might as well brand 'dave' into all my clothes


Fender and Gibson are two people's last names. It's as if he started the Raeder drum company, and made only one product for himself.

Hell, Levi's is from the guy's name. It's just general practice to sign what one makes or creates; product, art, or craft.

Cheers!
Ben Adrian