Presenting the HHG Spalted Sycamore Sports Team snare drum for 2021! With HHG Drums, you can now proudly represent your favorite sports team on your drums!!! Any team, anywhere in the world, no matter the sport!
The foundation for a great drum is the shell, and the foundation on this drum is rock-solid. It's made from rare Spalted Sycamore lumber, a species that can only be created by very a specific set of natural conditions. Basically a sycamore tree has die while still standing. If it falls to the ground, it will decompose too quickly. Standing after death, the woods slowly starts to dry, and also allow different species of fungus to grow inside the wood. This is where the distinct black patterning comes from in Spalted Sycamore. As the tree stands, the fungus Works its way through some of the grain lines in the wood, and ultimately when the wood is harvested at sawn into lumber, some of the fungus remains dried and preserved in the wood which leaves the beautiful black veins (a.k.a "spalting).
After finding some simply stellar examples of this species, we set about making a handcrafted stave shell for this drum. This means that the shell is made from solid wood, not plywood like almost all other mass-produced drums.
The stave shell was then sanded to perfection, and finished with a super high gloss lacquer finish, with a client-requested Fleur Des Lis on 3 panels of the snare drum to represent his favorite Louisiana-based pro football team.
Then the edges and snare beds were shaped to perfection, featuring a 45-degree inside cut and quarter inch round over outside cut bearing edge. This is the optimal bearing edge for stave shells because it allows maximum energy transfer from the batter head to the shell providing a warm sounding drum with tons of punch and power.
Finally the drum was assembled high quality Black Nickel tube lugs, 2.3mm triple-flanged Black Nickel hoops, vintage style strainer, die-cast buttplate, die-cast Black Nickel HHG badging, a die-cast air vent, PureSound Pro snare wires, and our signature tone control system with powdercoated black control knob.
The snare drum pictured in this listing was custom-built for a client, and it's a 14"x8". NOTE: If you buy this drum today, we will be building you one from scratch. This means that you can get it sized to your preferences (no larger than 14x8, but anything in between (13"x7", 12"x7", 14"x5", etc...) also we are happy to customize the color and hardware for you to best represent your favorite sporting organization.
Any sporting team's logo can be applied to your new drum, and we can most certainly paint a color scheme to match (if desired), whether gloss or satin, subtle or wild! Your imagination is the limit! Please note that if we do not have access to the logo, we may ask you to email us a high-resolution image of the specified logo in .jpeg or .pdf format.
Thank you so much for looking, and we certainly look forward to working with you to create your dream instrument!!