Hey Holy China, If you wanted to do this for cost effective reasons I'd opt out on it, because by the time you buy the shell all the lugs, tension rods, rims, heads and mounting hardware your going to be spending alot of dollars not to mention if you mess up drilling holes or bearing edges you'll be kicking yourself in the butt.
I have to tell you I did make my own snare but had all the hardware except for rims. I cut down a 12 x 8 tom to a 12 x 6 MIJ tom and used the hardware from a ludwig rocker snare I put gold lugs and rims and rewraped and did it just for fun at hardly no cost, I rewrapped the 12 inch snare and put the ludwig rocker badge on it and to be honest it has an awesome sound. I have it cranked really tight and it sounds almost like a piccollo snare. It felt good to do myself and I'll post pics, but it hardly cost nothing. I'd save my money doing it that way and buy yourself a really nice kit.
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