Re: Meinl Woodcraft - quality oak !
Posted: Tue Jan 28, 2014 5:40 pm
Mike wrote:THey were said to have had reindeer skins if I am not wrong.
I don´t remember this. But their skins were of outstanding quality already at that time. Maybe I romanticize a little bit, but I got in contact with a pair of them in a shop in Aarhus and this made me totally impressed because of their smoothness. I will never forget this experience.
Mike wrote:Woodcraft oak and Delaporte ash and other wooden shells were made by barrelmakers.
I am not sure if this is a sign of quality. Barrels are not manufactured very much precise. They keep their forms from getting wet and then expanding. The ancestors of modern congas are made of whole pieces of wood, I guess.
These drums from massive pieces of cuban trees are made by Peter Kragh Jacobsen who founded PJ and now is the owner of the Slagtøjcentret (Drum Center) in Copenhagen:
Kai Simonsen, who is a turner, adjusts his saw blade with an angel accurateness of 4 decimals behind the comma (he uses an electronic perpendicular) in order to get perfect miters at the staves.
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