Drum Kit made from Reclaimed Closet Doors - I've made a full band!
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Killer work! Some green bass drum hoop inlays would really tie the whole thing together👌
I never even thought about hardware beyond the basic stuff I had from the junk kit. that's a great idea. thanks!
I was wondering if you would see this video…
@@malonedrum David and I were talking about this years ago. He's been with me since the start :)
when i saw it was drum diy and green i hoped Rdavidr find it
I was half expecting you to walk in and be the drummer at the end of the video!
Can u make a vocalist out of a reclaimed canoe please.
😂😂😂
What...? Kanoo or kangoo?
A reclaimed Kangoo would fit better for its got a big tail and big bag😂
When one of your buds plays an instrument you made and they're all grins, you know you did good! Stellar cans my dude!
truth. Well, to be fair, Donny is just one of those smiley, positive types - which is one of the reasons why we're friends.
Love it! Great job dude! Marry my two loves - reclaiming trash and making useful instruments. Just subbed. Thought I already was subbed, but guess not.
Hi Brad
So now when you get the band together to play "The Doors".....it means something completely different. There's a LOT of science to drum building..... and your first effort is valiant.
That paper template for marking out the holes for the hardware was really ingenious
As a drummer who's followed your work for years, I gotta say this was a VERY welcome surprise. Couldn't even wait to finish watching before commenting, that's how excited I am! Cheers from north of the border.
awesome! I've been trying to get the time and budget to make this for well over two years! I'm glad it took this long, tho, as I think the results are better now than they would have been then.
@@timsway Sometimes things just work out like that! At any rate the end result is glorious and very well worth the wait.
I may watch this later. Got to the 6:20 mark and couldn't believe that he wasn't going to try and steam bend those. That's the way it is done.
@@MortonLuvz2drum can't steam bend plies that are already glued without them separating and getting wrecked. That's the challenge of reclaiming old doors - and fun!
@@timsway Good point.
I think steaming the plys around a mold like they do with guitar body sides is the way to go on drums. I don't know how that could be done with common household stuff though. Interesting connun-drum...get it?
This is really awesome! We had a old birch drum kit in our house when the kids were growing. We actually had a lot of instruments. We just wanted to have instruments around,just for enrichment. Maybe one of them would find interest and try and learn to really play something. Great video! Love everything you do Tim! Keep it up! Peace ☮️
thanks man. Having a house full of instruments is a great idea for child development. My 11 year old son drifts in and out of interest in them (heavy interest starting now). I've never forced it on him like a chore, I just leave it available and nurture the interest when it's there.
"The hollow cores" sounds like a good band.
Hollow Core is the style of music the band plays as I hope the genre grows beyond my work! The band name itself TBD. Leaning towards "Threshold."
@@timsway, How's 'bout "The Plies"? [Er, "The Ply's"?]
@@johnbesharian9965 I like that...
In thru the out door.... Again
Good stuff as usual. This made me realize that I can make a Bohdran out of a Nordic drum shell and other off the shelf parts. Thanks!✌️🌞😎🎻
Nice work, I build and modify drums, and I never considered your method of making a template out of paper for the hole layout. That’s a very low tech way to do something like that efficiently and accurately. Cheers!
Glad to help! Seemed easier than doing the math. Lol
@@timsway I use a layout mat I got for free, but obviously in your position I don’t expect you have templates lying around for this kind of thing. Cool idea.
Have you ever seen segment and stave shell drum building? You could probably build one of those with little experience on shell construction.
@@malonedrum yes, I'm familiar with stave drums. I wouldn't mind doing something like that
This was about the coolest thing EVER-
not crazy about the 'Exorcist Green' paint color, lol, but thats your thing-
I painted for about 35 years and you did a fine job.
If i didnt already have the Taiwan made John Bonham silver sparkle Ludwigs id be looking at these Luan doors from the 60s im about to drag to the street very differently right now.
Im also busy with other projects so im lucky to have time to play em at all.
But ive got to say- i really LOVE DIY and good old American ingenuity, and youve got em both in spades.
And your buddy on drums there did a GREAT job tuning them up and playing some hot licks on them.
You made them way better than they ever would have been originally, cos ive owned some real junk in the past, and its not easy.
Ive gone as far as stripping them and re finishing several kits and they didnt come out as well.
Good on ya and thanks for 30 minutes well spent.
Now to drag these doors to the curb-
Fun little jam at the end.
Can't wait to hear the whole hollow core band.
neither can I
All manufacturing companies
I.E. Yamaha, Ludwig, DW, Sonar all have different methods of making a drum shell.... You're design for drum shells was nothing compared to these drum giants. But , you knocked it out the park. Cheap hardware
and reclaim wood.
Sounds good and look good.
Good job!! Remo heads for free , nice touch.
My name is Victor and oh I'm pretty impressed with the with your closet door with the yeah closet or a drum set of amazing I've been paid for 50 years professionally and will cash it also that backed up certain artists and it's great keep going and I'll watch more but other your data made the job it's a great tone this Victor the hotter and California and that's really well I'm pretty pretty impressed and it made my day signing off thank you and I hope to hear from you for more from you thank you very much
Part of the reason you aren't getting the snare sound you want is that you are using a 2 ply pinstripe head on the snare top. Switch it to a coated ambassador and it will increase the sensitivity. Also having so few lugs and low end lugs on the snare also is a factor.
That being said, they do sound really good, that kick especially
That's a great point!!
Makes sense. Love the toms, though!
This is just delightful, man. Loved it through and through. The kit looks incredibly good and I think it sounds great too!
thank you!
RESPECT . . That gets you a sub . . NO DOUBT !!!
You could use the old kick or floor tom shells to make an upright bass banjo.
amazing work ! now to make some cymbals out of reclaimed metal maybe ?
Hmmm.....
@@timsway You could always hit up Nicky Moon or Lance Campeau for information on that, both are cymbalsmiths I've discovered through RUclips and I know for a fact Lance has made cymbals from the side sheet of an old discarded stove on his channel.
Awesome
The drummer is right...lots of drummers would kill for that sound! As a Drum-Tech I can tell you that in the studio where sound is the priority and looks don't matter, I seen some very cheap drums produce killer sound! To the point that endorsers used cheap other stuff to record, instead of what they endorse. That it is your first drum, doesn't mean that you didn't hit the nail on the head 😉. In the end it's an instrument and the sound is what matters! Great job👍🏻👍🏻
As a woodworker, drummer and cheapskate, I found this a fascinating video. You probably know by know that you are insane! There are several points I would mention to you. If you examine older drums made in the 40s through the 70s before hardcore factory techniques were adopted to make the shells, you'll see that the layers were often overlapped in what is essentially a scarf joint. The ends of each layer were planed down to almost nothing and overlap by the amount planed, usually a couple inches or so. That might be difficult to achieve with the material you were using, but I might suggest a simple jig to get the correct angle and then a belt sander rather than a planer to sand the angle. This scarf joint gives a little more room for alignment error than you had.
Another thing you didn't mention but which gets my attention as a drummer is the bearing edge. By using a million kerfs to allow bending, you will necessarily introduce those kerfs to the bearing edge. That's not ideal for acoustical properties. What you might consider is filling the drum edges with a two-part epoxy such as System Three before you cut the edges on the router table. That would fill in the ragged kerfs and allow for a smoother bearing edge. I suppose you could try steam bending rather than the kerfs, but I don't know how well that material would take to the steam. Probably not well.
Obviously You'll have some out-of-round issues when hand forming shells like this, which will tend to reduce sustain on the drums and sometimes make tuning inconsistent. As long as you can avoid the bearing edges bumping out far enough to touch the head rings you'll probably be okay. However, I did notice you had the tom lugs located a little too close to the rims. You could bring those toward the center of the drum by another 1/4 to 1/2 inch to allow for greater tuning range. That depression you cut in the bearing edge for the snares is a traditional touch, but not necessarily used on modern drums. You could probably omit that step and not suffer for it. Anyway, loved watching and I hope you'll try something similar again!
While this is very creative and such a cool idea. The labor cost alone would to make these drums quite expensive.
The drums sound great actually? You can tell they're not maple or anything but very solid sound. The snare on the other hand... I dunno if it's the clear head or what but it's just not cutting it for me. Regardless really impressive work man. Swap that snare out and that's a solid gigging and studio kit! Lol
I think is the pinstripe head. I hate the sound of it right now the way it is. I think if you put a coated HD dry or something along those lines it would sound killer. Toms sound killer.
What you did was way more impressive and impactful than most of the so-called “custom” drum makers out there who buy shells from Keller, hire an experienced artist to apply a polyester finish, assemble with commodity hardware, and charge $4K for a 3-pc. Just awesome.
22:30 I thought ya sounded
great on those drums!
I have heard of (and actually seen) two fisted drinkers, but I don't think I have heard of a two fisted sander before.
Maybe I'm just not paying attention.
Cool project.
Thanks for sharing.
Since I quit drinking I needed something for my hands to do...
I used too be A Evans head guy but recently went to Remo. They are better imo.Great work Tim.Such dedication 👏
Hollow core doors remind me of all the roach Haven motels I lived in as a child good times.
Killer job! Josh Freese, Brooks Wackerman, Bill Stevenson, Dave Mello, and hundreds of other drummers would be happy to have a set that nice!
next step: making industrial cymbals out of the sides of dead dishwashers and ovens
Yes! I wonder how a rusted iron skillet or any other pan past its prime might work. Glass bottles would make for interesting percussion, too.
Really, great big work! You deserves applause! Tom-toms and bass drum sound just killing! Your a snare sounds very good too. But it will work even better if to use special heads for that. One-layer coated head on a top - Remo Ambassador or Evans Genera. Аnd for bottom side - thin head, like "hazy 300" by Evans or something.
Time to start a hollow core door instrument band and name it "The Reclaimers" or the "Doors" but that one's already been taken!
You're getting a bunch of miss-hits on the snare because your hats are too low. I work with drummers all the time in my studio and see this issue all the time. It's just a simple fix of raising up your hats a bit so your wrists aren't so close together! Great sounding kit though!!
As a drummer, I wasn't expecting this, but wishing for it. The drums turned out great! Love that combination of the green and the wood finish.
you should build a piano
Ohsem job.. u should invite Ian Paice to test it...😁👍👍👍👍👍
Enjoyed watching your video thanks 😊
As a drummer and furniture maker, was surprised considering the materials but hey, sounds pretty good, especially the floor tom.
birch is birch and round is round! (Well, in this case, 'round enough' is 'round enough' :)
@@timsway The sound is all dependent on the heads. A drum shell is simply a means of holding and tensioning the head. The resonant properties of the shell material in addition to the hardware will mute certain frequencies of the head. So a very low density material would mute most of the high frequencies while the opposite occurs with dense materials. Having perfectly round shells with flat parallel edges that make good contact with the head are the most important details of a drum shell.
Nice job on those shells. You manufactured better shells than many drum companies from the mid 20th century.
hats Of To bothTim Friend Great Drum Sound Not Bad for First Time dDrum Build 😜💯 I’ve Been a builder /woodworker and Drummer Since very Young 4-5 yrs of Age ( now 60 and Still Jamm’n / Building You Guy Rock AND ROLL ‘N my Book you Are An Awe-sum DRUMMER Dude
The strange thing for all this Work is why you follow the construction of the cheap old set you have but not an bass drum with 10lugs, a snare with the same 10 lugs too cause you made it from scratch so you could do whatever you want you just can do a small research on the internet to find a hole drilling template for all lug construction drums and thats it. Finally when i listen this kit i find it very nice sounding and reminds me a Ludwig Maple kit that i heard some weeks before.It sounds unexpectedly good!! So your job not became lost you must be proud for your work!! Hope you do a custom stave kit for the next with more research cause you had it and you own all the necessary tools for anything!! Nice Job Man!!!
Did you ever listen to John Good from the DW drum company? He could tell you a lot about the problems you experienced here. But nonetheless I appreciate unconventional solutions and find your video very interesting.
Iwould love to hear the sound of one madewith TITEBONDE III wood glue.....
Great build video. I look forward to seeing the recycle band........
That wood is either Birch or Myrtle. Both are popular woods for making hollow core doors from. Neat idea, though, to create drum shells from closet door skins. -b
Not bad for a first attempt at building drums! I think I know why your snare drum sounds a little dead though with not much snare wire response! Is that a normal thickness Remo Ambassador clear head on the bottom of the snare ? If so, change it to an Ambassador hazy. The bottom (resonant) head on a snare drum should be a 10 times thinner than the ones you actually hit. The Hazy head is an extra thin head for use on the bottom of snare drums, to improve the snare wire response. Also, the batter (top) head on a snare drum should ideally be a coated head (ambassador or CS coated is a good choice) instead of clear pinstripe or whatever you have on it.
we changed the head. you can hear it in this recording: ruclips.net/video/vaU_p48A6Uo/видео.html
Such a fun project. As proof of concept, I'd say you nailed it. When I worked in the instrument repair shop, one of my jobs was to replace heads and hardware on the drums. Had no idea what I was doing tuning the heads, other than making them consistent. It always impresses me to see the changes that are achievable by somebody who does actually know what they are doing. These drums look and sound great! Next hollow core door instrument? Clarinet might be kind of tricky... Thanks for sharing!
Nice job! The snare drum would sound and play better with a coated (white) batter head. I have tried both and in my experience single ply coated batters work best, especially for a guy who can play well like Donny.
Alright, selling my Tama Starclassic Bubingas. The wife is asking me why I removed all the doors on the second floor. Shhhhhhh
grt work ,,tim BTW your friend IS a grt drummer m8
Excellent job my friend I think you did fantastic work. 👍👍
Someone saw your video and took it to a new level.... Your's is the first drum build video I found in my feed.
Thanks for this vid of yours lots of good tips!!!
And after watching this other vid' just below I'd say You have the easier mold fabrication method
ruclips.net/video/QVlyiAEpD-U/видео.html
Which I couldn't tell if it was a 30 min commercial, for this cardboard company, with some drumming in it, or what, but when combined with tips in your vidalmost, anyone could build a practical, inexpensive, kit at home. the cardboard is easy to mount on the molds because it's very flexible and after the glue has dried, it's coated, and 'filled', with a good layer of epoxy, to make it strong and waterproof.The cardboard company was also working with a drum company, for the technical measurements, hardware placement and other details.
Awsome man! good job :D I like your style :D
Nice job, sir. I can't say I'm a fan of the green paint. But my taste in color aside, beautiful kit.
They sound like Ludwigs awesome quality!
Whenever I see Total Boat I think of Louis Sauzedde and his Tips from a Shipwright channel. Love his videos too.
Awesome! That snare has a lot of room to to do a lot more. Pull the Pinstripe off that baby and slap an Ambassador or emperor on, bring that felt back a little bit and look out. When I would refurb drums, I didn't build them, but what I did was, I used SOS pads to do all the Chrome and if it was just slightly Rusty or dirty but not missing Chrome, they would shine up like a diamond. Learned that when I used to do bicycle rims as a kid LOL. Pretty sure all those lugs and rims could have been reused if you didn't replace them. Couldn't tell if you did or not. I wish I was that good with wood man. Although I have used clamps and Gorilla Glue to fix the soles on shoes LOL
Regarding the snare. Try loosening both the snare head and put more slack on the springs. That should save you from having to fool with the bed. Also, as a rule of thumb you want the bottom heads to just be about 1/2-3/4 turns past hand tight (so tuned lower than the top heads) to get them to resonate well. Lastly, the toms should be tuned to the intervals of I,IV,V with I being the floor tom.
Just some advice from a recording engineer with many decades of experience. Epic build!!
Just curious to understand your advise regarding the I, IV, V tuning.. Assuming that refers to two rack toms and a floor tom, what intervals would you tune a single rack tom and floor tom to?
Thanks
Wow! Well tuned and well played. I was a drummer too. All types of music genre. From Latin to jazz and Rock. Too old for all that.
I wonder what that snare would sound like after seating the snare bed better, and putting a single ply Remo Ambassador on it? Or coated heads on all batter sides?
I once bout a Remo PTS drums from a friend. “Pre Tuned System” the heads were stretched and on a ring that had a clamp similar to one you would see on a cheap guitar case. I think they were constructed of cardboard or pressed fiber of some sort. For $20 I think I got ripped off…
I like this video... I just can't understand the green strips on the outside of the drum. (Not appealing) but good job on the make !
my first guitar is now a frankenstein's 3 stringed, fretless, painter's tape markered, old radio's pcb pickguart, aspargus jar cap jackplate bass monster.
Can say " scatterbrained" 👮🏼♂😂😂
Hmmm interesting video , played the drums for many years (started at primary school what you americans call elementary) , good to see stuff being reused but a cheap kit to start with isnt always a bad idea as cheap kits from 50 years ago ect are far superior to anything "emtry level" you can buy today , sadly the one you started with want vintage thats why quality was poor , but it was free! So win win
Depends of the diameter, you can make a bass drum 16” or 15” aereal tom.
Just be creative with your first “mistake”
I tried this before with Masonite for the outside veneer on some low end piece of crap kit. Big failure on my part. You on the other hand Patience is a virtue and your woodworking skills are a big plus.
🥁🤙🏼
Sounds surprisingly good... But, if I may suggest? Pin stripes do not belong with a snare. Chokes and makes it sound boxy.
The kit sounds pretty good. Just that snare needs more bite, like you said and that bass drums needs a little muffling.
Very nice work. Ive made a couple snare drums in my past but never the whole kit. I recently switched to electronic drums and ill never look back. When i had acoustic drums i spent 80 percent of my time tuning and twaeking to get the sound i never found.
Deathcore is so 2018. I much prefer Hollowcore
yo tengo un proyecto de un Pancake drums set
My son and I are luthiers. You're right. Like you, we started off learning how to make guitars by taking apart old ones lying around the house. In our case, I had a cheap Strat knock off that we took apart. Then I bought a couple of books on guitar making from Amazon. Now, we make custom guitars, both solid bodies and acoustics. We even learned how to wind killer pick ups. I thoroughly enjoyed your video. Cheers from the Philippines.
Damn, using the table saw fence as a stop for your miter saw too is genius
This guy will put DW drums out of business one day!
Knock knock
Who's there
Closet
Closet who
Clos it's a drum set made from doors, dummy!
Okay but when are you going to make a full keyboard made out of hollow core doors? 🤔🤔🤔
Nice endeavor... but a fantastic drummer!
Punk Band named »The Hollow Core Doors«?
very nice job....:)
I like the a nature finish ...
Good job with building it from discarded doors. You should consider making drums for sale.
I knew you would do these justice going in, as you always do, and i am still surprised how well they turned out. They sound great. Kudos to your buddy for the slick beats and tuning too make them come alive!
If it’s maple birch, that’s usually the best word
Thats just FN COOL!!!
PLEASE sample the kit for us?
seen them build drum inside a mould , to clamp it they put in an inflatable verry thick ballon type of thing , presses everything to the inside of the pipe making the finish that visable verry smooth , they allso used scarf joints and sanded the inside and outside with a big roll sander with the sanding roll in between two other guide rolls (do a search on youtube youll find the vids no problem )
as for painting the outside of the drums . put them on a turntable then stand to the side pointing the paintgun at it
i allso seen them made drumbarrels like they make winebarrels using a lot of narrow strips of wood with angle cut sides (need to calculate the angle acording to the diameter of the barrels and the amount of strips youre using ) glued together and then machined so the barrel ends up thin walled and perfectly round , bet you could use palletwood for that and if you use two kinds of wood you could even get a natural zebra effect
ummm... you know you can buy drums, right? ;) jk Amazing!
Most ply drums are made inside a female mould you wont struggle so much as it all holds itself together ,and the outside diameter will always be the same even if the plys vary a bit. But good job, must have taken many hours.
Ingenious! You might want to put up a Keller rival. 😂😂😂🥁
Why does this sound better than my pearl export 😭😭😭
Could always make the snare drum at 8 or 10 lug which helps in the tuning range or even a little deeper.
Maybe a 6 and a 1/2 by 14
8 or 10 lug. Really liked the project.
great! snares too boxy for me but maybe the dampener is engaged and an ambassador head would prob sound better to me on that.
Would like to bring you my pearl exports and have you put some edge supports and re cut the bearing edges. Well done!
you have a great skill there my friend, dont want to be a nit picker but the kick drum needs a more bass sounds a bit flat, that's not a first drum kit, you could use it on a stage no problem.
Those are 60s doors, my aunt had ones just like them in her house and it was built in the early 60s
Can you make an organ from reclaimed Tables?
I'll be honest I am very impressed, I wanna try this!!!
Watch "How it's made" for a good demo on how to make drums. Well done!
Very Cool repurposing wood project.