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We start by cutting the 0.6mm thick sheets of our hand selected Jarrah ply and exotic timber veneers into the individual sizes for each drum. A special epoxy resin is then applied to each sheet and folded into our own dry mould system. This system excludes the introduction of water into the shells, making reinforcement hoops and other stability measures unnecessary in a Brady shell.
Each sheet of veneer is cut from the same section of the tree and put into the moulds with the wood grain running in the same horizontal direction. This is a world first and to date has not been copied by other manufacturers (the usual drum shell manufacturing method is called "cross-laminated", where the wood grain of each ply of the drum shell is going in alternative directions). An airbag applies extreme pressure to the shell, which is left for a minimum of 24 hours to harden, assuring an accurate and perfectly round drum shell. In this method the glue and the timber literally melt into one unit. The unique binding of the non cross- laminated sheets of the veneer form a 'solid wood- like' drum shell that is the basis for our unique Brady sound.
The raw drum shells are then released from the mould, cut to length and cured for several days before they undergo the finishing process.
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