The Red Zebra Custom Snare Drum

This 7.5x14” custom handcrafted snare drum is built from 100% Zebrawood staves. Zebrawood is a very hard exotic wood that comes from West Africa, and this particular piece has some gorgeous featuring. Expect a very versatile drum that has a nice dry crack but can also be tuned to become warmer and fatter. As for the finish, I did a bright red stain augmented with a bit of orange dye. I applied 30 (THIRTY!) coats of 2K polyester high gloss clear coat. I sanded between each 3 coats in a manner that would allow the actual texture of the grain and some lines between staves to be seen and felt even though it’s a high-gloss finish.  The goal was to make this shell a more “living/breathing” element of the drum, rather than doing a 100% smooth gloss.  

This drum has:

offset roundover to 45 degree bearing edges.

a 0.66” thick stave shell

single point black metal and brass lugs, custom made for Seven Six Drums by Champagne Drums in Canada and black nickel tension rods

black nickel triple flanged hoops

Purseound 30 strand snare wires

Trick black throw off and butt plate

Matching air vent grommet

Remo Powerstroke and Ambassador heads.