2007 Visit to DSH Shell Shop

Video from 2007 featuring an overview of the Drum Supply House custom shell shop. We briefly touch on many of our high end custom drum shell offerings. Cutting and making shell "true", Various bearing edge offerings, Snare beds, Wrapping shells, Layout + Drilling, etc...

[@axemanbob787]

Aluminum shells have an extra ringing sound that I like. I have made a few drums out of second hand aluminum cooking pots and pans, and they sound amazing.

[@kchilz32]

Axeman Bob you should make a video making one. I would totally check it out

[@Darrylizer1]

I love my Ludwig Acrolite aluminum shell snare and I'm buying a 6.5 inch Ludwig Supraphonic soon. I love the sound of an aluminum snare but I've never heard an aluminum tom. I'd love to hear that!

[@WalbergAuge]

Rob Kampa is a true drum building artisan!!

[@67scout73]

Thank you for this excellent video.

[@jimc336]

Best drum-building video on youtube!

[@speedfire6]

Awesome work guys!!!

[@vandavis911]

i still love his magstar snares.

[@jcw91371]

Now THAT'S how you cut a bearing edge. I was watching a trip to the Sonor factory and the worker cutting the edges didn't EVEN put that much detail in to the work. Completely unacceptable for drums in general, but especially for a company that prides itself on quality and certainly charges for it. Great work, Rob!

[@mdiabao]

Congratulations!

[@vandavis911]

rob kampa you make such good drums

[@ErwanPepito]

Hi guys, awsome video!!!
The pressure rolling machine use to wrap drums, it's custom made or i can find it somewhere.
Thx

[@pleximanic]

Have you tried carbon fiber reinforcement rings on thin solid sb Maple shells?

[@bignegoruimsousa8089]

Muito bom

[@sgtpepper1138]

Where did you manage to get a sheet of sandpaper that big?

[@drumsupply]

+sgtpepper1138 I forget. Some industrial supplier. We keep it cleaned with a giant, rubber "sander eraser"... so we only need to change it every few years.

[@YOU-vm4pg]

yo sueño con tener un snare de maple algun día !

[@josephsoap9938]

Where are the shells made? And how? I was hoping to see the wood being steamed and bent - or lathed.

[@timbrown6629]

They use Keller shells.
I built my first kit with everything coming from Andy Foote (owner of DSH) back around 1997 and it is still the best kit I have ever heard. It sings.

[@kchilz32]

You can contact noble and Cooley see if they can steam bend some shells for you