HHG Drums 14x7 Raw Steel 2017 Oxide Patina

All HHG drums are built by a drummer for drummers. Our goal is to provide our customers with the most musical and articulate drums available today. We guarantee you will love your HHG drum and it will hold a special place in anyone's arsenal of instruments, from beginner to professional. After all, we're in the business of making drummers happy!!!

This drum represents the combination of lots of hard work and research and development that we've been involved in over the past couple of months. We made the steel shell for this drum in house. It is handmade using old world metal fabrication techniques.

The material in this drum is raw plate steel, that's 1/8 of an inch thick. This is not your everyday normal steel snare drum. Almost all steel drums on the market are made from thin gauge steel sheet metal that is either rolled or spun into a cylinder. This thin sheet metal can make for an abrasive and unpleasant sound. By using a much thicker gauge of metal, we managed to capture the power and focus of a steel drum, while still being a warm and musical instrument.

The finish on this drum is a chemically applied oxide patina. Our goal was to keep the steel as close to its original form as possible, let the material speak for itself.

This drum also features oil rubbed bronze single point lugs, black nickel 2.3mm hoops, a vintage p-85 style strainer, die-cast air vent, and hand-cut leather washers at every single Hardware attachment point- both inside the drum, and outside.

Here are some additional specs for this drum:     

Depth: 7"     

Diameter: 14"     

Shell thickness:1/8"     

Shell material: raw carbon steel plate

Finish: oxide patina

Bearing edge: roundover 

Snare bed: 3/32" deep and 3.625" wide

Hardware: oil rubbed bronze single point lugs, 2.3mm black nickel hoops, vintage style strainer, 30 strand snare wires, diecast air vent and butt plate, Antique silver HHG badge

If you have any idea for a shell, snare, or kit- please feel free to contact us at facebook.com/hhgdrums or at - custom builds are welcome, and we will do our best to build whatever it is that you can dream up!

The specific drum in these pictures has been sold, if you decide to purchase this from today we will be building you a brand new one from scratch. This may add some time before your item will ship. Also, because we will be building you a brand-new drum, we can change around some of the specs if you would like us to.