Bodhacking

Making a bodhran from a light fitting - Hacking Homebase #1

On a recent shopping trip to homebase Rob Forkner and Paul Marshall chanced upon some light fittings in a sale that were too good to pass up...

Rob and Paul retired toPaul's workshop and set about creating a drum using skin off-cuts plus the tools and industrial fixings available.

Because they were so cheap, we had bought two of the light fittings in the store intending to make a couple of different drums.

The Shell

The wood from which the lights were made was cheap hardwood and built using a barrel-stave method with a vertical grain.

Caveat Papa!

Advice for parents buying cheap drum sets or kids drum sets

As we can see from the popularity of the Young and Gifted section of Dojo TV, Kids are really starting to demand more and more from their equipment and, consequently, their poor parents who have to pay for it.

This upsurge is great for manufacturers and the drum industry who have created a whole new marketplace for a whole new range of products. Some are genuine innovation, some are simply repackaging.

is 'Kids', 'Junior' or 'student' merely a nice way of saying 'budget', 'cheapo' or 'flimsy'

With the rising commercial importance of junior drummers, their impressionable minds exposed to hero-endorser-worship through MTV and their uncanny ability for persistence; you WILL inevitably end up buying junior a drumset and you really have no choice about it.

We say Caveat Papa - Let the Father Beware