Here is the kit when I bought it.
Roland TD-11K

I got a 16 inch floor tom from the tip shop for $5 and took it home and stripped it down and cut it in half...This became my kick drum.

I then painted it and set about making the internal trigger, the trigger design got trashed at a later date for a better version.

12 inch tom cut into two.
sanded filled and undercoated with a marine epoxy primer then sanded flat again and filled anywhere needed

basecoated with black gloss enamel then scotchbrited for adhesion

Old laundry tub filled with water for swirling (DIY plug too
)

Red and Black enamel paint poured onto the water surface and then swirled around a bit to make some sort of a pattern and get the colours moving around each other

Slowly dipped into the paint and rotated while dipping

Clear the paint off the surface away from the shell and pull it out to avoid double coating

The toms swirled and ready for 1st round of clearcoats.

Internal triggers are an mdf base, screw cabinet foot and quartz trigger cones with 35mm murata piezos

more toms swirled

finished snare with hardware painted satin black and some rubber U-channel on the bottom

I didn't get enough pictures of the whole process, but here is some of the kit as it stands now, completely playable, so I am not in any rush to continue expanding just yet. And seeing as i have a new hobby I know where all my spare cash will be going now lol.




Roland TD-11K
I got a 16 inch floor tom from the tip shop for $5 and took it home and stripped it down and cut it in half...This became my kick drum.
I then painted it and set about making the internal trigger, the trigger design got trashed at a later date for a better version.
12 inch tom cut into two.
sanded filled and undercoated with a marine epoxy primer then sanded flat again and filled anywhere needed

basecoated with black gloss enamel then scotchbrited for adhesion

Old laundry tub filled with water for swirling (DIY plug too


Red and Black enamel paint poured onto the water surface and then swirled around a bit to make some sort of a pattern and get the colours moving around each other

Slowly dipped into the paint and rotated while dipping

Clear the paint off the surface away from the shell and pull it out to avoid double coating

The toms swirled and ready for 1st round of clearcoats.

Internal triggers are an mdf base, screw cabinet foot and quartz trigger cones with 35mm murata piezos

more toms swirled
finished snare with hardware painted satin black and some rubber U-channel on the bottom
I didn't get enough pictures of the whole process, but here is some of the kit as it stands now, completely playable, so I am not in any rush to continue expanding just yet. And seeing as i have a new hobby I know where all my spare cash will be going now lol.





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