Gallery 6
101. Pearl Masterworks 14×5.5 Maple/Gum shell with Black Limba
outer ply, gold
102. Pearl Masterworks 12×4.5 Maple/Gum shell with Black Limba
outer ply, gold hardware
103. British Drum Company 14×6.5 “Merlin” 20ply Birch/Maple
shell in Paduak veneer
104. Rukus 14×6.6 10ply Hybrid Shell: Santos Rosewood-
Mahogany-Wenge-Mahogany-Santos Rosewoods. The Santos Rosewood
has a Teal gloss outer finish with Rosewood inside.
105. Rukus 14×6.5 8ply Maple shell in Tigerwood Satin veneer,
black nickel hardware.
106. Rukus 14×6.5 seemless spun Aluminum shell in a Mod Grind
Rose color.
107. Solid Drums Switzerland Limited Gold Leaf Diamond #3 of 10.
14×5 stave Swiss Maple shell with 12 ct Moon gold and 23.47 ct
Rose gold. Hand rolled steel hoops and proprietary lugs.
108. Middlecentre 14×5 stave Sakura (Cherry Blossom) from Japan.
The top wood hoop has a top ply of Ume (Japanese Plum Tree.) All
solid brass hardware.
109. Sugar Percussion 14×6 stave Alaskan Yellow Cedar shell in
the “painted polar colors” available from Sugar Percussion in a
Piet Mondrian art style homage. First of its kind.
110. Pearl 14×5 Chrome over Brass mid 1970s with die cast top
hoop. This is the same series drum used by Steward Copeland from
1980 on with The Police on subsequent records and tours. It’s
not a proper “Jupiter” model as that has a steel shell,
different throw off and the vent hole is in the center of the
drum. The “Copeland” model is like this— with the vent hole at
the bottom of the shell.
111. Bucks County Drum Co 14×6.5 Jatoba ply shell (Brazilian
Cheery) with Royal Ebony veneer.
112. Sonor Lite 14×7 1/4 from the late 80s. 12 ply Birch with
Rosewood veneer inside and out along with the Signature style
parallel strainer.
113. Serenity 14×7 Cheery ply hand painted “Nebula” series. Made
for 10 plies of old English Cherry, leather and coin lugs. The
coins are from the Commonwealth of Australia and are dated from
the 1920s and 1930s. 1970s Premier die cast hoops treated with
pigment and glitter from award winning make up artist, Karla
Powell. Jon Hammond (Serenity) usually hand carves drums but
produced this limited series of ply shell and this was the last
to be made.
114. Serenity solid wood sculpted 14×6.5. This was the last
Serenity snare commissioned and made. A center band of spalted
Ash, and segments of Amazonian Greenheart and (Congo) Azobe and
Bilinga. These woods spent decades at the side of the Thames
River in London. The Bilinga and Azobe have a provenance— there
were on Teddington Lock right outside the BBC Teddington
Television studios. Monty Python filmed the “Fish Slapping
Dance” on them, The Beatles docked at Teddington Lock after a
“welcome back from America” Thames ride, walked on these as
police held back throngs of screaming fans—and had the footsteps
of British Television history giants from Peter Sellers, Benny
Hill, Rowan Atkinson, and Ricky Gervais on them through the
decades. Britannia Pennies adorn the leather lugs dated from
1906 through the 20s.
#115. Groove Drum Co. (from Portugal) 14x6.25 Pear wood shell.
Santos Rosewood center veneer with blue Birdseye. “Todd
Sucherman” engraved in “G” logo.
#116. Solid Drums Switzerland stave 16”x6” two tone stave Swiss
Flame Apple and Tulipwood. Inside shell is two tone blue and
silver.
#117. Slingerland 14x7 from between 1956 and 1959. It appears to
be Mahogany and Maple, possibly Poplar. This was acquired from
the collection of the great Dave Mattacks.
#118. Sugar Percussion stave Sequoia. Sequoia is a protected wood
and this tree fell in 1981 on a 30 foot snowbank and was felled
legally by two men who received government permission. Some of
this wood made it to Jefferson Shallenberger some 35 years later
who made (I believe) three drums from this stock. This tree was
25’ wide and is estimated between 3500 & 5000 years old.
#119. Pearl Music City Custom 14x6.5 solid steam bent Ash with
Kingwood inlay. These are handcrafted in the USA
#120. Pearl Stave Craft 14x6.5 Makha with Dadoloc system. Stave
construction with 25mm thick Asian Makha wood.
#121. Yamaha Recording Custom 14x8 in Quartz Grey lacquer from
the late 1980s.
#122. Spirit 14x5.5 from Australia. This is a solid shell
hollowed out from a Cooktown Ironwood tree log around 2000/2001.
#123. Ebenor 14x6.5 Noranda Copper “gold edition” from Quebec,
Canada. This is the 1000th drum produced by Will Leclerc from
Ebenor.
#124. Red Rock Drums Australia 14x7 stave Tasmanian Tiger Myrtle
over Tasmanian Oak with French polish. The Tasmanian Tiger
Myrtle is very rare. |
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