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Hi,
I thought I'd post about my other job so you can learn more about what I do here besides making knives
This is my second job, I spend every Friday afternoon at a drums shop repairing and working with them.
I make replacement for drum parts are just imposible to get or ridiculously expensive around here.
Basically I make custom metal replacement parts for the store's clients that have broken a piece of some of theirs drum set. I remake plastic pieces in hardened aluminum or stainless steel, so they will last forever and won't affect the sound of the drums
I also repair stands and pedals and in the past I also did a lot of laquering jobs on the wood of entire drum sets in a new color the owner wanted or even with something more "crazy" looking.
I make he replacements as I make my knives, by hand. They're always different, so it doesn't make sense to me to make a print or mold for them, so I just use files, sandpaper, etc and I meassure them with a caliper and keep working til they're exactly the same
Some examples:
This is a plastic piece of a Ludwig snare drums vintage that broke, and I made it in stainless steel so it could last for a lifetime.
And this one is a piece of a Gretsch snare drum that fell down and broke. This time I made the replacement part with Duraluminium.
I thought I'd post about my other job so you can learn more about what I do here besides making knives

This is my second job, I spend every Friday afternoon at a drums shop repairing and working with them.
I make replacement for drum parts are just imposible to get or ridiculously expensive around here.
Basically I make custom metal replacement parts for the store's clients that have broken a piece of some of theirs drum set. I remake plastic pieces in hardened aluminum or stainless steel, so they will last forever and won't affect the sound of the drums
I also repair stands and pedals and in the past I also did a lot of laquering jobs on the wood of entire drum sets in a new color the owner wanted or even with something more "crazy" looking.
I make he replacements as I make my knives, by hand. They're always different, so it doesn't make sense to me to make a print or mold for them, so I just use files, sandpaper, etc and I meassure them with a caliper and keep working til they're exactly the same
Some examples:
This is a plastic piece of a Ludwig snare drums vintage that broke, and I made it in stainless steel so it could last for a lifetime.




And this one is a piece of a Gretsch snare drum that fell down and broke. This time I made the replacement part with Duraluminium.


