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Who am I. I'm Dale Cardwell. I kind of started the whole mess . I'm the founder of CMC drums a lot of what brought people does is we're building grounds to the specifications of shelves made back in the late 1940s 50s 60s and early 70s. There were drum shells being made during that time period that the specifications were built by now on drummers. Couldn't get new drums that created these sounds . The vintage drums are limited in number of old drums that there are guys who have old drums didn't want to have to take them out on tour with them . We loved old drums and I wanted to recreate old drum shells . The very first phase of drug making is one of the most important because you're going to construct a drum shell. You get to decide what types of wood you're going to use. There's a myriad of different combinations it's the most important step in what you want to drum to sound like once we decide what the shelves are gonna be. Cut it down ridiculous. The precision that would have that once it's cut fitted into the drum show mode takes flat pieces of plywood and turns them into round circles. It always closes to a set diameter. It's got a plunger that comes down in these pedals open up and put pressure from the inside. There's an oven on the outside and the oven on the inside it cooks for six hundred and sixty seconds that would once delay strike you're forcing it into the position that it's not comfortable being it cooks we take it out of the machine go over and set it down and then let it cool wall . If it's getting stained or painted we happen pilot drill every hole that's going to be going on the ground just barely through the first playa. There's a word it keeps from the drum being damaged. Later in the process the key is to handle it as little times as feasibly possible . Saying the finish on it they're sanded with a hundred and fifty grit sandpaper and then 320 grit sandpaper we stain the drums with a water bass stain . Twenty minutes after you stain the drums put them in the spray booth shoot a coat of sealer on them we go in and D.A. saying that sealer clean that off blow that all are clean up the drum show will leave him and let him set overnight just for the hardening process there's no such thing as a perfect drum. I don't care who you are and what you build. It's not perfect. It's never going to be perfect. There's no one right there's no one wrong. You have to have the flexibility of mind to say I'll build whatever that is going to sound positive to the world and not put yourself in a box as far as this is what a drum was supposed to sound like . The whole parking lot outside of our shop is gravel. When we went to age these hoops. That process is really just tear the crap out of it like it's been abused. One of the guys on put his put on him. Scratch him into the gravel to distress the inside of the herd. We just beat on the inside of the big old rock . Missed a coat. Black spray paint all over the WHO JUST LIKE SAYING THAT OFF JUST LEAVING A GAP IN THE BLACK It affects a look even from a distance. It's pretty neat but it's not over this is not a very easy place to work. It's demanding. There's been a certain level set of expectation. People realize that when they come in the door they didn't realize it before they get in there. Some of them don't realize it over out the door . The people that work here take ownership of this place so much and the pride they take in the work that they do. That's why I'm walking around this place and drums are being built. Like a hundred drums a week. If I've done one thing right I've put together a staff of people that are great after we've sanded off Nikkei we take it into the spray booth. We issued a code of sealer on it stain the hoops our biggest selling drum lines have a three quarter inch inlay it's rather cut a channel where you can Enlai another material. We work with all different species of abalone seashells. It's quite unique material. We cut the abalone. We lay it into the channel that we've rooted out. After that start grilling those Collard holes that you made all the hardware is placed under the drum. The hardware is the metal. If it gets poor Tom gets leg mounts bass drum gets Spurs ready for hands where the head of sits on the shell of the drum . It's called The bering edge. The point of impact of that bearing age has a huge impact upon what the sound of the drum the heads are placed on the drum and the drums are cleaned up . Taken over to the shipping area you want to see your product. You want to get feedback. You want to hear how they sound like you want to go talk to the sound man and say How easy are these for you to mine . Every one of these bands that are good and they can play their foundation is their drummer. He's the guy who's holding the whole thing again . It all started with a drone .