{"product_id":"hhg-drums-13x7-california-redwood-stave-snare-2019-high-gloss-blueberry-tie-dye","title":"HHG Drums 13x7 California Redwood Stave Snare 2019 High Gloss Blueberry Tie-dye","description":"\u003cp\u003eRecently I had a fantastic client of mine ship me some premium California Redwood Lumber to build in a drum out of. Luckily, he was kind enough to send me enough lumber to make two. This is the sister to the drum that I built him. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCalifornia Redwood is a coniferous tree species, in layman's terms it is a softwood pine. Usually softwoods don't make it into the vernacular of drum building, though they are widely used in other types of instrument building, for instance, almost all acoustic guitars have a spruce soundboard for the top of the guitar. The reasoning for this is that the wood is soft and very easily excitable through the vibrations made from playing instrument. My goal here was to use that as a through-line to build a drum. I wanted to capture the sonic benefits of using this unique wood species, but also make a drone with tons of power, focus, and structural rigidity. To accomplish this, I made the drum incredibly thick, about 1-1\/8\" or 30mm.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shell features a unique contoured pattern to the exterior of the shell. 2 deep in sweeping coves are cut into the outside of the shell. The goal was to reduce the overall weight of the drum, by bringing down the mass of the shell it should lower the natural pitch of the drum. Also there is an aesthetic component to it, by removing material in this manner it exposes the grain in different ways which leads to the beautiful striations and swirling grain patterns that you see.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Finish is what I'm calling a blueberry tie-dye effect. It is achieved in multiple steps using different dyes, sanding, and clearcoat. In the end, the effect is to highlight the natural grain of the drum with some muted blue pastel colors and a sexy high gloss finish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe hardware on the drum is 100% bronze. It features a unique 10 lug setup which is a very rare item for 13 in drums. I went with this 10 lug configuration because I like to really crank my 13 in snare drums, and I thought that it would benefit from extra lugs to help spread that tension.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt features our signature HHG lugs in an antique bronze finish, as well as the hoops in the same antique bronze finish. It has a diecast antique bronze HHG badge, Inde strainer, and diecast butt plate. It also features our proprietary internal tone control mechanism with a handsome white oak knob.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI topped everything off with an HHG Logo Evans coated Power Center reverse dot batter head and an HHG logo Evans hazy 300 snare side head. The drum also features Puresound Custom Pro 24 strand brass snare wires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe drum has an absolutely fantastic sound. Incredible Clarity and articulation while maintaining warms, balance, and punch. It has a wide dynamic range that operates beautifully from the most powerful rimshot backbeat to the most nuanced ghost note.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eI'm very proud of this instrument, it is unique, functional, and elegant. I genuinely hope that you will decide to scoop it up and add it to your arsenal today.  As with all of our drums and listings shown, when you place an order with HHG Drums, \u003cb\u003eyour new instrument will be hand-crafted in house, from scratch\u003c\/b\u003e. The drum shown in the pictures was built for a customer, and now resides with them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThanks,\u003cbr\u003eSam from HHG Drums\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HHG Drums","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42557509304363,"sku":"rev-29666544","price":1080.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0633\/7537\/6427\/files\/lv8r8sm26edagfvfjayr.jpg?v=1765301485","url":"https:\/\/www.hhgdrums.com\/products\/hhg-drums-13x7-california-redwood-stave-snare-2019-high-gloss-blueberry-tie-dye","provider":"HHG Drums","version":"1.0","type":"link"}