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When sourcing our timbers, Chris Brady picks a very limited number of log sections, which he reserves for future solid drums. These drums are literally handcarved out of the solid trunk of a tree. Depending on the timber they can take up to 3 years of curing between the various steps of production. The log is hand-chiseled into a general round form before we can finally start to machine it in a lathe to slowly turn it into a drum. This process is extremely labour intensive and time consuming and there is no such thing as a quickly produced solid drum.
Timber never cures completely and a later movement of this 'one-piece-of-wood' drum shell needs to be eliminated. This is the most vital part of the manufacturing. Once the shell finally reaches its preferred thickness it is sealed and put forward to the finishing process.
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