The Padauk and Ambrosia Maple Side/Utility Snare

This 6.25x10 inch custom handcrafted snare drum is built from 100% Padauk wood staves with a 1 inch layer of Ambrosia Maple staves in the center. That lovely color and figuring is not a veneer, it’s through and through Padauk and Maple. Padauk is an African wood that is incredibly hard - about 50% harder than maple, but has a much more complex grain structure and red appearance. Ambrosia Maple is a beautiful medium hard wood. It has a die cast batter hoop for maximum attack, power, and volume, and a triple flanged resonant hoop for maximum resonance…this drum has it all. It is finished in pretty, pricey, durable high gloss polyester.

This drum has:

• offset 45 degree bearing edges.

• a 0.50” thick stave shell

• handmade antiqued brass lugs (with brass shavings in resin at the center) and throw off / butt plate from W. Odd Drums in Serbia

• black nickel die cast batter and triple flanged resonant hoops and tension rods

• 20 strand snare wires throw off and butt plate

• Matching air vent grommet

• Remo and Aquarian heads