Cover your drums in FUR

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Rejuvinate your old drums, and your passion for playing them, by wrapping them in fur. Whether you play alone in your mom's basement, the local dive, or stages around the globe, this drum'structable will help you stand out in the crowd.

Will it hamper the resonance of the drum shells? Who cares! - they will look sweet and it will give you something to talk about with the ladies.

The best part - this instructable does not require glue, tape, or anything that would maher the drums appearance once the fur is removed. Change their look as often as you like.

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Step 1: Stuff you'll need

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scissors
drum key
philips head screwdriver
tape measure
drums
furry fabric (any type of fabric will do). You can find tons of fabric options at your local craft store.

Applejacks says: Jul 17, 2011. 4:08 PM

after i saw your ible, i had to fur my own kit. i did it about a year ago but i never got around to sharing pics. and yes, thats a 22x28" bass drum (i spliced together two 22x14" shells with my woodworking skills and forgot to make an ible out of it)

tuaduct says: Apr 8, 2010. 2:19 AM

This IS damnd great!! I just finished my "Polar Pearl" set :D

DrumMaking says: Aug 16, 2009. 11:13 AM

Very creative...but as far as drum tones go, adding an extra 1/2" of fabric sound absorption to your drums isnt the best idea.

mg0930mg says: Jul 16, 2009. 11:05 PM

I love this idea!

keeptheheat1 says: Sep 25, 2008. 10:14 PM

Bro! i did this same thing to my old pearl export. it was wickeddd. except mine was yellow and black. looooooks good

dashofthunder in reply to keeptheheat1Feb 17, 2009. 1:46 PM

and yet you still cant play magic bus on it

Fenris The bbw says: May 22, 2008. 3:20 PM

When I clicked this, I thought "Wow, that's a dumb way to spell fire." And then, when the image loaded I thought "That doesn't even look like fire! This sucks! That just looks like fu-... Oh." WTF is wrong with me today?

SeMi_AuToMaTic says: Mar 1, 2008. 8:44 AM

can you show a picture of your complete furry drumset

Thunderexpress says: Feb 23, 2008. 4:01 PM

Coming from a drummer, this is an interesting idea. But no one do this on a vintage kit (if its japanese go ahead). You will seriously lose value on the kit. I cringe everytime I see a beautiful set of rogers or ludwigs that are ruined by installing a pearl mount or doing something crazy like this.

theknife (author) in reply to ThunderexpressFeb 28, 2008. 12:12 PM

Thunderexpress - i'm with you on this. I hate to see a beautiful set of drums devalued by drilling holes or doing some other irreversible modifications. Good call.

AT says: Nov 3, 2007. 7:07 PM

I like it! Wish I had seen this or thought about it XX years ago when I was in HS. Our school colors are Orange and Black and our mascot is the tiger. This would have been GREAT! But we were styling with out orange sparkle drums and black wool uniforms.

theknife (author) in reply to ATNov 6, 2007. 6:24 AM

what would have looked really sweet is nice white fur on the drums to compliment the orange and black uniform you were rocking back then.

AT in reply to theknifeNov 6, 2007. 1:16 PM

Maybe. It seems to me that our uniforms we mainly black. The white might have made us look too generic? But then, that was before the black and white generic look hit the market. So we could have been trend setters! I didn't notice in your pictures, but did you leave a hole for the air port on the side of the drum?

theknife (author) in reply to ATNov 7, 2007. 9:18 AM

god question. I did, but I did not try to take the existing grommet off of the drum. I just cut the hole after the fur was already fastened down.

dentsinger says: Nov 2, 2007. 4:07 PM

I would think this would totally kill the resonance of the shells.

theknife (author) in reply to dentsingerNov 6, 2007. 6:30 AM

you actually be surprised. If you have the toms on hanging mounts, it's hard to notice any difference in resonance, especially if you use ambassadors and emperors on the the toms, especially when mic'd. Maybe there is a small loss in resonance, but nobody I have asked, including sound guys at clubs, can tell.

nickyjez says: Nov 2, 2007. 1:11 PM

This is rad! I'm not a drummer (although who doesn't secretly want to be.) but you're making me want to give this a shot. The Tony the Tiger fur gets a thumbs up. One question though, you really don't need any adhesive? Does the fur ever start to get loose? Word.

theknife (author) in reply to nickyjezNov 6, 2007. 6:22 AM

if you are careful to wrap the fur snugly, there will be less chance of it getting caught on cymbal stands etc, and thus, less chance of pulling or loosening. Good question

rotter says: Nov 4, 2007. 5:42 AM

Dude, How about adding a picture of the completed kit. Did you run out of steam?

AndrewM says: Nov 2, 2007. 6:07 PM

Nice work! Makes me want to wrap everything in fur!

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canida says: Nov 2, 2007. 4:20 PM

That's sweet!

joemonkey says: Nov 2, 2007. 2:02 PM

cool idea, and i like , coming from a drummer th only think is, i have a very nice tama pearl white 11 piece set, and im not going to do this.

drummonkey92 says: Nov 2, 2007. 12:27 PM

i gota say man, i'm realy lovin the instructable but was that a pearl masters kit!? dude, u just covered where it says what kit it is so now no-one will no what a nice set u've got lol i just got a mapex v-series so im gona try this on my old drumworld. realy nice instructable!!! you definately get a +