Models
10 models
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DW Collector's Series Maple Snare
Flagship custom maple snare drum
Percussion · United States
DW's Collector's Series Maple snare is built from hand-selected North American maple as a 10-ply VLT shell with 6-ply reinforcement rings, 60-degree bearing edges, Turret lugs, True-Pitch tension rods, 3.0mm True-Hoops, and a MAG throw-off, customizable in any Custom Shop finish.
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Leedy Broadway Standard
Pre-war American professional snare
Percussion · United States
The Broadway Standard was Leedy's professional snare through the 1920s and 1930s, and its mechanical strainer designs are the ancestors of most of what followed.
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Craviotto Solid Shell Snare
One plank, steam-bent, one seam
Percussion · United States
Craviotto's snares are steam-bent from a single plank of maple, birch, walnut, or cherry, leaving one vertical seam and no glue lines through the shell. They are loud, dry, and dated and signed by the builder.
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Rogers Dyna-Sonic
The snare with a floating snare frame
Percussion · United States
The Dyna-Sonic suspends its snare wires in a separate frame that touches the head under controlled tension rather than being pulled across it, which gives an unusually even response at low volume. It is one of the few genuinely original snare designs of the twentieth century.
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Slingerland Radio King
Solid one-ply maple shell, cut from a single plank
Percussion · United States
The Radio King's shell is one piece of steam-bent solid maple rather than laminated plies, and the drum's crack — dry, loud, and quick to decay — is the sound of American swing drumming. It has been reissued repeatedly and copied constantly.
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Gretsch USA Custom Snare
Maple/gum-shell custom snare drum
Percussion · United States
Gretsch's USA Custom snare uses the 6-ply Gretsch-formula maple/gum shell with a 30-degree bearing edge, the exclusive Silver Sealer interior, and 4mm die-cast hoops, built to order in Ridgeland, South Carolina, in any USA-palette finish.
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Gretsch Round Badge Snare
Three-ply maple with die-cast hoops
Percussion · United States
The Round Badge era snare pairs the same silver-sealed three-ply shell as the kits with die-cast hoops, giving a dry, focused crack that sits under a cymbal without fighting it.
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Camco Aristocrat
Camco's professional wood snare
Percussion · United States
The Aristocrat was Camco's standard professional snare, a thin maple shell with the company's own strainer, and one of the drums whose reputation kept the brand's name alive after the factory closed.
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Slingerland Artist Model
Three-ply Slingerland snare of the 1960s and 1970s
Percussion · United States
The Artist Model was Slingerland's mainstream professional snare after the solid-shell era: three-ply maple and mahogany with a reinforcement ring, and the company's clam-shell strainer.
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Rogers Powertone
The Dyna-Sonic's conventional sibling
Percussion · United States
The Powertone used the same shells and hardware as the Dyna-Sonic with a conventional strainer and snare bed, which made it cheaper, louder, and — to some drummers — the better rock drum of the two.