Once upon a time I decided to make a drum. I do not play drums, however have wanted to since I was a kid. One day I was inspired by a drum I saw online and decided to make one. The first drum I ever made was out of a car wheel. I had to machine it down and fabricated spacers to fit all of the pieces together. After a two tone paint scheme and some assembly it was done. That drum ended up in the hands of a friend of mine. After talking one night about what he would want in a drum he stated he played a drum at a festival that was really thick and had a great punchy tone. So I said, I think I can make that. A few months of time go by and I managed to get a shell together that ended up being 1 and a half inches thick. It was constructed of maple and I stained it a transparent black. I added slingerland style vintage lugs and cast hoops to finish it off. That drum is the drum pictured here.