Welcome in the new year, with this Sounds Like Art gem

As 2009 slips away and we jump into 2010, lets go out on one of my favorite snares from this past year. This is a Sounds Like Art snare, Series I. The shell started out as a 1″ thick maple stave shell, and was precision carved to what you see below. The lugs are a custom machined art deco design with solid brass tuning inserts, the hoops are Slingerland Stick-Saver reproductions, and the strainer is the Dunnett R-Class. My favorite feature of this drum was the paint job. Created using Dodge Viper Silver Metallic as a base over the wood working, it was then sealed and coated in Toyota Scion XB Black, which was antiqued to get a nice weathered effect, and then clear coated in a high-gloss. The final drum is an awesome work of art, the photos really don’t do it justice…but here’s a farewell to ’09, and a big Happy New Year to all: