In an increasingly crazy messy world, watching the precision of this build gave me calmness and joy. Well done and thank you for posting. I'd love to get my hands on it to experiment with heads/tuning! Also have workshop envy... Best wishes from the UK. Cheers.
Now if only the heads were 1/1000th as durable as the shell. Throw some really thin rims and a diplomat on it and see what that does. Drilling the case holes looked and sounded suspensful.
I've had my custom 14x10 stainless steel snare drum (4mm thick!!!) laser-cut. Otherwise the rolling and welding was pretty much the same as yours.... And I installed off-the-shelf Hardware. The result weighs in at 11,5kg and it sounds absolutely great. One of a Kind. Way to go!!!!! Congrats to you....it's a different thing when you play a truly unique Instrument!I used the tank for this Video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zflml8T5hZo.html