I suppose you could pour complete shells too, using a mold, machine the bearing edges, etc., but how would that resonate? Maybe shells benefit from being "bent?"
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Haaaa. looking back, overseeing my last assumption, you're right northern. This guy is looking for a caveman special. That screams instability but, hey its his choice and money. I know there is and are, no musical properties to GLUE, but lets be honest, 90% of drums manufactured, recorded and performed with have glue joints.
The scarf joint in the bent shell is very minimal compared to the additional Plys/joint, in a traditional drum. They all sound good but I must say, the solid shell series from MCD is amazing. They didn't make Modern Drummer and best sound at NAMM for nothing.
just saying.
I can see the attraction of a one piece drum made from a tree, but from a manufacturing stand point it would be an awful wasteful way to make drums especially from rare hardwoods, because of coring out of the centers. OTOH if the centers could be used for smaller diameter drums, I suppose it could work.
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Yep solid shell cored from a tree trunk,
Glue is a dampening agent and no good for transmitting sound, but I think it's inconsequential to what we are talking about here.
I do industrial imaging, with xray / ultrasonics / magnetic imaging and so forth
The group in qld use iron wood, apparently incredibly stable, the drums are made to order
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