Posts Tagged ‘ Mould ’
Ok, so I am entering a drum contest. AT www.dfdrumtech.com (drumfoundry’s forum) The shell below is what I am thinking of entering, also I have been making another shell that has blackbutt on the outer plys, this may become the shell not sure yet, what ever looks better with the hoops. Im planning on keeping [ READ MORE ]
So here are the steps to make a ply shell mould, it is pretty simple and it should only take you two three days to have a working mould come out of it. If you have any issues or questions feel free to leave a comment. WHAT YOU NEED Materials MDF – the thickness is [ READ MORE ]
Currently making a 10″ mould, have all the peices cut now just for a glue up. Hopefully it all goes better than the previous ones. I threw away my first this morning and havnt even finished off the other 14″ I should but im lazy. I might try to finish both tomorrow. Its going to [ READ MORE ]
OK, so I have got the plys to get press completely flat. What I ended up doing was applying glue to both the Horizontal and vertical leaves of veneer. Then when I clamped the MDF together I put a long 90×35 flat on the top and bottom and clamped to that. The glue was also [ READ MORE ]
SO I started making my new mould today, Its all glued up, clamped etc. The BendyPly isn’t glued down yet. I will do that tomorrow. The set up is 600x600mm Squares with circles cut out. The spacer between the squares is 16mm MDF, the layout of the mould makes it a little deeper than 8″ [ READ MORE ]
Today I pulled the shell out of the mould. Everything went OK, could have been better and could have been a lot worse. So there was no gaps in-between any plys which is a good thing. There has been a few issues with the plys moving after the pressure has been applied, I think this [ READ MORE ]
So Yesterday I went and got some American Walnut to start to make the drums. 17 leaves 300x2400x0.6 to be exact. Plenty I started off by laminating two leaves of veneer together. All went well, then I did another two and put them in the mould. As I did this, I wanted to create a [ READ MORE ]
OK so the first process in making the shell is to laminate some veneer together. For this shell I just got some cheap Radiata Pine. To increase the strength of the shell you want to cross laminate the plys. This means that every other ply will have the grain running vertical. Basically to laminate two [ READ MORE ]
OK so I have started to Build the mould. Well actually I have finished it but for this post i will show you how I constructed it. First of i got 4 sheets of MDF approx 18” x 18” which I then Constructed a Circle Jig to cut out circles. After I cut out the [ READ MORE ]
Hey So I have decided to build some ply drum shells. I have already built the mould and I’m on my way on getting a working shell. I will update with more progress as I go along. I have been following the methods from here http://pdgood.us/drumshed/ply.html I have already constructed one snare drum, 14×4 Jarrah [ READ MORE ]
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