HHG Drums 14x7 Raw Plate Steel Snare, Oxide Patina

All HHG drums are built by drummers, 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, and a die-cast air vent.

Here are some additional specs for this drum:

Depth: 7"

Diameter: 14"

Shell thickness:1/8"

Finish: oxide patina

Bearing edge: roundover

Snare bed: 3/32" deep and 2.625" 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

As with all of our drums and listings shown, when you place an order with HHG Drums, your new instrument will be hand-crafted in house, from scratch. The drum shown in the pictures was built for a customer, and now resides with them.

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