Killer work! Some green bass drum hoop inlays would really tie the whole thing together👌

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

I never even thought about hardware beyond the basic stuff I had from the junk kit. that's a great idea. thanks!

@malonedrum

2 жыл бұрын

I was wondering if you would see this video…

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

@@malonedrum David and I were talking about this years ago. He's been with me since the start :)

@diegoibarrabasurto9424

2 жыл бұрын

when i saw it was drum diy and green i hoped Rdavidr find it

@othervinny

2 жыл бұрын

I was half expecting you to walk in and be the drummer at the end of the video!

Can u make a vocalist out of a reclaimed canoe please.

@chassy

6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@thegreenmanalishiyamadori371

2 ай бұрын

What...? Kanoo or kangoo? A reclaimed Kangoo would fit better for its got a big tail and big bag😂

When one of your buds plays an instrument you made and they're all grins, you know you did good! Stellar cans my dude!

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

truth. Well, to be fair, Donny is just one of those smiley, positive types - which is one of the reasons why we're friends.

That paper template for marking out the holes for the hardware was really ingenious

So now when you get the band together to play "The Doors".....it means something completely different. There's a LOT of science to drum building..... and your first effort is valiant.

As a drummer who's followed your work for years, I gotta say this was a VERY welcome surprise. Couldn't even wait to finish watching before commenting, that's how excited I am! Cheers from north of the border.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

awesome! I've been trying to get the time and budget to make this for well over two years! I'm glad it took this long, tho, as I think the results are better now than they would have been then.

@TallMatt

2 жыл бұрын

@@timsway Sometimes things just work out like that! At any rate the end result is glorious and very well worth the wait.

@MortonLuvz2drum

2 жыл бұрын

I may watch this later. Got to the 6:20 mark and couldn't believe that he wasn't going to try and steam bend those. That's the way it is done.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

@@MortonLuvz2drum can't steam bend plies that are already glued without them separating and getting wrecked. That's the challenge of reclaiming old doors - and fun!

@MortonLuvz2drum

2 жыл бұрын

@@timsway Good point.

Hollow core doors remind me of all the roach Haven motels I lived in as a child good times.

Building drums is a blast. Very satisfying.

What you did was way more impressive and impactful than most of the so-called “custom” drum makers out there who buy shells from Keller, hire an experienced artist to apply a polyester finish, assemble with commodity hardware, and charge $4K for a 3-pc. Just awesome.

Fun little jam at the end. Can't wait to hear the whole hollow core band.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

neither can I

That's one happy drummer's smile that I see. 'Are we gonna do a performance on these instruments together?' Man, that's a compliment that is for realz!

"The hollow cores" sounds like a good band.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

Hollow Core is the style of music the band plays as I hope the genre grows beyond my work! The band name itself TBD. Leaning towards "Threshold."

@johnbesharian9965

2 жыл бұрын

@@timsway, How's 'bout "The Plies"? [Er, "The Ply's"?]

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

@@johnbesharian9965 I like that...

@olddognewtricks2818

2 жыл бұрын

In thru the out door.... Again

I'm trying to cut down the time spent on yt, but here I am - my morning coffee, oatmeal, and your video. No regrets this time. Pozdro666

If it’s maple birch, that’s usually the best word

'Hollowcore' sounds like the name of a musical genre. Remo sponsorship? You've truly made it

@hydorah

Жыл бұрын

Well you've found your drummer he seems like an ace guy!

@hydorah

Жыл бұрын

That last little jam that you played had some groove to it 🙂

My son and I are luthiers. You're right. Like you, we started off learning how to make guitars by taking apart old ones lying around the house. In our case, I had a cheap Strat knock off that we took apart. Then I bought a couple of books on guitar making from Amazon. Now, we make custom guitars, both solid bodies and acoustics. We even learned how to wind killer pick ups. I thoroughly enjoyed your video. Cheers from the Philippines.

All manufacturing companies I.E. Yamaha, Ludwig, DW, Sonar all have different methods of making a drum shell.... You're design for drum shells was nothing compared to these drum giants. But , you knocked it out the park. Cheap hardware and reclaim wood. Sounds good and look good. Good job!! Remo heads for free , nice touch.

I knew you would do these justice going in, as you always do, and i am still surprised how well they turned out. They sound great. Kudos to your buddy for the slick beats and tuning too make them come alive!

This is really awesome! We had a old birch drum kit in our house when the kids were growing. We actually had a lot of instruments. We just wanted to have instruments around,just for enrichment. Maybe one of them would find interest and try and learn to really play something. Great video! Love everything you do Tim! Keep it up! Peace ☮️

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

thanks man. Having a house full of instruments is a great idea for child development. My 11 year old son drifts in and out of interest in them (heavy interest starting now). I've never forced it on him like a chore, I just leave it available and nurture the interest when it's there.

As a drummer, I wasn't expecting this, but wishing for it. The drums turned out great! Love that combination of the green and the wood finish.

Part of the reason you aren't getting the snare sound you want is that you are using a 2 ply pinstripe head on the snare top. Switch it to a coated ambassador and it will increase the sensitivity. Also having so few lugs and low end lugs on the snare also is a factor. That being said, they do sound really good, that kick especially

@paulshadowinds7654

2 жыл бұрын

That's a great point!!

@PedroPetracco

2 жыл бұрын

Makes sense. Love the toms, though!

This is just delightful, man. Loved it through and through. The kit looks incredibly good and I think it sounds great too!

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

thank you!

That wood is either Birch or Myrtle. Both are popular woods for making hollow core doors from. Neat idea, though, to create drum shells from closet door skins. -b

That sounds great for just knocking on doors!!!

I dont agree.. the kit you built is of superior quality to the one you dismantled... Truly amazing work... you prove that "just doing it" can take you places you never thought possible.. I would love to see you make another kit out of some more exotic woods..

Loved every minute of it! Can't wait to hear and see the studio sessions.

This is one of the absolute best videos I've ever seen. From zero to a working kit. I can't tell you how great this was.

@timsway

6 ай бұрын

thanks!

I hope there are many Tim Sways out there, repurposing unloved wood. What a great philosophy you have regarding recycling.

You deserve a million views if energy and time are considered in the making of this!! I'm halfway thru and tired just watching. GOOD LUCK my Man. PEACE.

I'll be honest I am very impressed, I wanna try this!!!

The drummer is right...lots of drummers would kill for that sound! As a Drum-Tech I can tell you that in the studio where sound is the priority and looks don't matter, I seen some very cheap drums produce killer sound! To the point that endorsers used cheap other stuff to record, instead of what they endorse. That it is your first drum, doesn't mean that you didn't hit the nail on the head 😉. In the end it's an instrument and the sound is what matters! Great job👍🏻👍🏻

This all goes to show that ~~ "even if you are Left-Handed"~~ you can still MAKE AMAZING STUFF!! Props to you Young Man. Mad Skills.

This video deserves a million+ views. Great wood work.

This was about the coolest thing EVER- not crazy about the 'Exorcist Green' paint color, lol, but thats your thing- I painted for about 35 years and you did a fine job. If i didnt already have the Taiwan made John Bonham silver sparkle Ludwigs id be looking at these Luan doors from the 60s im about to drag to the street very differently right now. Im also busy with other projects so im lucky to have time to play em at all. But ive got to say- i really LOVE DIY and good old American ingenuity, and youve got em both in spades. And your buddy on drums there did a GREAT job tuning them up and playing some hot licks on them. You made them way better than they ever would have been originally, cos ive owned some real junk in the past, and its not easy. Ive gone as far as stripping them and re finishing several kits and they didnt come out as well. Good on ya and thanks for 30 minutes well spent. Now to drag these doors to the curb-

Great drums great drummer !! ✌🏽

Cool build man! Loved it.

Awesome

My name is Victor and oh I'm pretty impressed with the with your closet door with the yeah closet or a drum set of amazing I've been paid for 50 years professionally and will cash it also that backed up certain artists and it's great keep going and I'll watch more but other your data made the job it's a great tone this Victor the hotter and California and that's really well I'm pretty pretty impressed and it made my day signing off thank you and I hope to hear from you for more from you thank you very much

Good stuff as usual. This made me realize that I can make a Bohdran out of a Nordic drum shell and other off the shelf parts. Thanks!✌️🌞😎🎻

Now that was a very impressive build Tim! Not only is that a great looking Drum set but it also sounds great. Your skills never cease to amaze buddy! 👍👍👏👏

Wow thats a lot of work, pretty impressive

This guy will put DW drums out of business one day!

Great build video. I look forward to seeing the recycle band........

Killer job! Josh Freese, Brooks Wackerman, Bill Stevenson, Dave Mello, and hundreds of other drummers would be happy to have a set that nice!

The green stripes are really cool!

You could use the old kick or floor tom shells to make an upright bass banjo.

Donny looks so happy and proud to be playing on a drumkit his friend made.

Thanks Tim.

they sound awesome - great job dude! I think a coated batter head on the snare would make it even better.

Awesome job! Toms sound slamming and the snare has such a distinct, controlled bite.

Great job Tim...you never cease to amaze!

Beautiful work. Loved seeing your take on making this.

Wow! Amazing! Great job! I started watching this thinking, "Maybe I can make me some drums out of old hollow doors." Uh, no way. Really blown away.

You just created a whole new music genre: hollowcore!

Glad to see you finally made a drum kit, Tim. It sounds great, friend! :)

Whoa this was awesome. What a giant build. Drums look and sound great. Learned a little how drums work too. Mahalo for sharing! : )

As a woodworker, drummer and cheapskate, I found this a fascinating video. You probably know by know that you are insane! There are several points I would mention to you. If you examine older drums made in the 40s through the 70s before hardcore factory techniques were adopted to make the shells, you'll see that the layers were often overlapped in what is essentially a scarf joint. The ends of each layer were planed down to almost nothing and overlap by the amount planed, usually a couple inches or so. That might be difficult to achieve with the material you were using, but I might suggest a simple jig to get the correct angle and then a belt sander rather than a planer to sand the angle. This scarf joint gives a little more room for alignment error than you had. Another thing you didn't mention but which gets my attention as a drummer is the bearing edge. By using a million kerfs to allow bending, you will necessarily introduce those kerfs to the bearing edge. That's not ideal for acoustical properties. What you might consider is filling the drum edges with a two-part epoxy such as System Three before you cut the edges on the router table. That would fill in the ragged kerfs and allow for a smoother bearing edge. I suppose you could try steam bending rather than the kerfs, but I don't know how well that material would take to the steam. Probably not well. Obviously You'll have some out-of-round issues when hand forming shells like this, which will tend to reduce sustain on the drums and sometimes make tuning inconsistent. As long as you can avoid the bearing edges bumping out far enough to touch the head rings you'll probably be okay. However, I did notice you had the tom lugs located a little too close to the rims. You could bring those toward the center of the drum by another 1/4 to 1/2 inch to allow for greater tuning range. That depression you cut in the bearing edge for the snares is a traditional touch, but not necessarily used on modern drums. You could probably omit that step and not suffer for it. Anyway, loved watching and I hope you'll try something similar again!

Seeing the guitar hanging in the background made me want one of your guitars in a bad way. I love the look of it. I'm dying to know how it plays because it looks awesome!

@timsway

11 ай бұрын

While I mostly make commissioned builds, I keep some inventory at at NewPerspectivesMusic.com and most of the guitars have an audio demo video. Check 'em out or contact me about making a custom guitar for you!

The snare not having a snarey-enough sound is a tuning thing as well as head choice. A clear head on the snare will have a lot clearer of an attack than a coated head.

How did I miss this? Ha ha!!! So glad you did it. 😀

Been a session/touring drummer for over 40 years and have never played anything outside Drum-workshop. At least tracking and live performance. Right off the top I figured the sound was going to be dreadful with this build, but it was a very pleasant surprise to hear that the sound is very good. Birtch wood has a very fast attack with resonance/sustain cut usually shy just about a 3rd. of a note. This is what I believe I am hearing. Maple on the other hand is much bolder with a bit more warmth and sustain. Very creative, great craftsmanship and great sound. I give it a 10! 👍

just is just all so great

Very nice work. Ive made a couple snare drums in my past but never the whole kit. I recently switched to electronic drums and ill never look back. When i had acoustic drums i spent 80 percent of my time tuning and twaeking to get the sound i never found.

I think steaming the plys around a mold like they do with guitar body sides is the way to go on drums. I don't know how that could be done with common household stuff though. Interesting connun-drum...get it?

The strange thing for all this Work is why you follow the construction of the cheap old set you have but not an bass drum with 10lugs, a snare with the same 10 lugs too cause you made it from scratch so you could do whatever you want you just can do a small research on the internet to find a hole drilling template for all lug construction drums and thats it. Finally when i listen this kit i find it very nice sounding and reminds me a Ludwig Maple kit that i heard some weeks before.It sounds unexpectedly good!! So your job not became lost you must be proud for your work!! Hope you do a custom stave kit for the next with more research cause you had it and you own all the necessary tools for anything!! Nice Job Man!!!

Love seeing the process here! Lucky score on those nice doors. When your friend tuned up the snare it was pretty cool to hear the difference!

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

yea, there's a huge difference on what any instrument can do in the hands of someone who really understands it.

Nice work, I build and modify drums, and I never considered your method of making a template out of paper for the hole layout. That’s a very low tech way to do something like that efficiently and accurately. Cheers!

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

Glad to help! Seemed easier than doing the math. Lol

@malonedrum

2 жыл бұрын

@@timsway I use a layout mat I got for free, but obviously in your position I don’t expect you have templates lying around for this kind of thing. Cool idea. Have you ever seen segment and stave shell drum building? You could probably build one of those with little experience on shell construction.

@timsway

2 жыл бұрын

@@malonedrum yes, I'm familiar with stave drums. I wouldn't mind doing something like that

That's so cool, nice looking set!

Bold project to tackle. Nice work!

You're right I wouldn't have dismantled a good set of drums to do what you did but they turned out good. You definitely got them for the right price.

Impeccably engineered...

lots of Credit and thumbs Up to you ! I’m a retired WoodWorker and over the years i did many Side Jobs for Customers wanting to replace flat Hollow Core doors for the Newer look of 6 Panel Ones of course i had to do it myself as it helped put Food onmy Table but i always explained that they were basically replacing real Wood doors with Ground up Wood and Recycled NewsPaper and Cardboard ones they usually didn’t care and just wanted to Update their aging home to a newer look for resale ? for me it was Easy Money as i have all the Equipment and did Solid Core Commercial Doors for Years so carrying lightweight ones were easy and almost enjoyable to do on my day off

Whenever I see Total Boat I think of Louis Sauzedde and his Tips from a Shipwright channel. Love his videos too.

It seems like a perfect set for John Densmore to demo.

Wow, Tim they look AWESOME! well done

Simply awesome…. Donny is the man!!

Good job with building it from discarded doors. You should consider making drums for sale.

Now that's what I call recycling old Doors & turning them into Drums you can play.

Awesome job, Sir!!! They sound great for being recycled doors!

Like always Tim, great, innovative work. You are a master repurposer. And your drummer friend is awesome.

Man, you’ve earned my like and my follow, good job, love that raw vintage sound

Awesome job! The door knobs!

These sounded great my dood.

Sounds pretty good sounds a lot better than I thought it was going to

Hi ! Not only are you talented as a drum kit builder / creator but, you are also a very gifted drummer ! What more can one pray for??? God Bless ! Talent, skill, workmanship. . . You have it all ! Continue well ! I enjoyed your video very much. . .

Such a fun project. As proof of concept, I'd say you nailed it. When I worked in the instrument repair shop, one of my jobs was to replace heads and hardware on the drums. Had no idea what I was doing tuning the heads, other than making them consistent. It always impresses me to see the changes that are achievable by somebody who does actually know what they are doing. These drums look and sound great! Next hollow core door instrument? Clarinet might be kind of tricky... Thanks for sharing!

Gaad influenced for sure. Great stuff. Good job on the kit, had the right dude demo it for you.

thats too cool

I used too be A Evans head guy but recently went to Remo. They are better imo.Great work Tim.Such dedication 👏

BRAVO !!! Great job. Can we now all tell DW to go pound sand with their ridiculous wood theory. I love restoring old drums so, I have a great appreciation for what you just accomplished. Cant wait to hear a studio session.

I love it! And the sound is amazing

That Sir is awesome! As a drummer myself, that is fantastic that you were able to pull that off with some old doors ha. Amazing!

Super cool my friend.

VERY IMPRESSIVE!

awesome build

I fabricated a 3 box system that holds a whole drum kit Seat , pedals , stands , cymbal , drums . Yes the whole kit In turn the 3 boxes lock together , upside down , and form a drum riser Someday I will make a video This build is COOL Now have to pull up ur other build videos Cheers

I love the drummer.. True skillz

Wow !!! I really liked that work ! Sounds nice too !

Great video explaining measurements and cutting diameters very educational good job on the drum.

These turned out great! I can't believe how good they sound. I was skeptical of the green at first but it looks nice next to the lighter wood tone.