HHG Drums Recycle Series

NOTE: 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.

The shells for these snares are made from the scraps of wood left over from all of the drums we create over a calendar year, hence we we are calling them the Recycle Series.

The way I make shells tends to yield small and unusually shaped pieces of wood that aren't super useful, but are too big for my inner-wood-hoarder to get rid of. As the year progresses my scrap shelf slowly fills with these interesting but less-than useful remnants.

At some point, in the name of maintaining a somewhat orderly shop, I decided to make use of these scraps in one project- rather than letting my neighbor use them as kindling in his outdoor fire pit like I had done in the past. I thought there would be no more fitting an application for these pieces of lumber than to be made into drums, a bit of a redemption if you will. They didn't quite make it into whatever shell they were discarded from, but now they get a chance to shine.

I couldn't be happier with the resulting shells. They are visually impactful, but more importantly they tell the story of HHG Drums during the course of 2018. Every piece of wood is a reflection on a client, an instrument, and the labor I spent building it. It's really cool to look at these shells and reflect on all of these projects, and it feels good to know that I saved all of this wonderful lumber from the burn pile!

-Sam Thurau lead craftsman at HHG

DETAILS:

No two drums are the same. Each drum features a number of different species, with an average of 7 to 8 different species in each drum. The wood species vary from domestics, to extremely hard to find Exotics. Ash, cherry, walnut, Poplar, Oak, maple, ebony, Bubinga, Purple Heart, Sycamore, Paduak, mahogany, shedua, lacewood- just to name a few.

This specific snare featured our signature HHG lugs in in oil rubbed bronze finish, as well as oil rubbed bronze hoops. It has our redesigned internal damping mechanism, black nickel vintage style strainer, black nickel die-cast butt plate, a black nickel die-cast air vent, an antique brass HHG diecast badge, Evans drum heads top and bottom, and Puresound custom Pro 24 strand brass snare wires. The drum is a 14x7 size, with a .625" shell thickness.

These are some of the coolest drums that we have made to date, we're very excited to be building some instruments that capture a small part of our history. We hope that you'll consider adding one to your Arsenal!

NOTE:
The drum in these photos has actually been sold, if you purchase this drum today I will be building you a brand new drum from scratch. The new drum can either be as similar as possible or as different as you would like. Considering that these drums were built with a variety of different wood species all of which were leftover scraps from current drum builds, the current stock of scrap will obviously be different from what we had when we built this one.

Short story long, you will get a drum that is freshly handmade though it may look a little bit different, but the upswing of this is that you can help guide us as we build the new drum for you. If you have some specific wood species you would like to us to put into the mixture, we would be more than happy to do that for you! After time of  purchase it usually takes about two weeks to build and ship a drum like this. Also, because we are building it from scratch it allows us the option to change things like Hardware color and Hardware type, so for instance, if you wanted to do a drum with all black Hardware or All Chrome Hardware we could certainly accommodate that.

Look forward to building a drum for you, thanks for reading!
-Sam from HHG