Models

SJC Tour Series

Custom-finished maple touring kits

Drum kit · United States

Tour Series is SJC's production custom kit: maple shells in whatever finish the order specifies, from plain lacquer to inlaid and painted work built for stage visibility.

C&C Player Date

Thin mahogany and poplar shells with rings

Drum kit · United States

Player Date kits use thin mahogany, poplar, or maple shells with reinforcement rings and minimal hardware, and the resulting warm, quick-decaying tone put C&C behind a wave of Americana and indie rock records.

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.

Vic Firth SD1 General

The maple concert stick

Drumstick · United States

The SD1 General is a maple concert snare stick with a large round tip, standard in orchestral and wind band playing and in most percussion methods.

Black Swamp SoundArt Concert Snare

Single-strand concert snare

Concert percussion · United States

SoundArt is the Multisonic's simpler sibling: one strand set, a maple or steel shell, and the same bearing edges and hardware, at a price a conservatory can buy in numbers.

A&F Pancake Snare

A very shallow auxiliary snare

Percussion · United States

The Pancake is a shallow snare — often under two inches deep — designed to sit beside a main drum for a high, sharp accent, and it turned into one of A&F's most copied formats.

C&C Gladstone

C&C's higher-specification maple line

Drum kit · United States

The Gladstone line takes the same thin-shell approach into maple with more elaborate hardware and finish work, aimed at drummers who want the vintage voice without the vintage condition.

Craviotto Solid Shell Kit

A whole kit of one-ply shells

Drum kit · United States

Building a full kit out of solid steam-bent shells is slow and expensive, and the result is unusually loud and open — closer to a set of orchestral drums than a modern ply kit.