Building A Pancake Snare (DIY Drum Building) 

hot tip: adding one of those internal snares to the top side of a normal snare drum is totally wicked too. having snares on both heads gives you more wires and adds the sound of muffling without dulling overtones too much.

Sounds awesome. Great work!

Awesome.You cant tell the sound difference from a full sized snare drum!

I think it sounds fantastic! Sure it has its limitations as far where you’d use it but I’d use it as a side snare, and the snares on the bottom sound the best. For $30 and some old parts you created a winner!

Very cool Mike. Thanks for sharing.

wonderful work, thanks for sharing.

This sounds great.

Well done. Fantastic videography.

Very cool build and video!! Well done.

Great Idea! Love the Pancake Snares from A and F and the budget version seems to be working. I really like the idea of using the lug inserts for tuning the heads. Keep up the great work!

excellent, great video. thank you

I liked what you did making this, Mike-Thumbs up and thanks for the great video coverage! A few years ago I bought the LP internal throw snare wire set to make an SD version with an old Tama mini timbali and had the same issue tension adjustment lacking.

So dope! Two of my favorite worlds colliding in one video.

That sounds great!

Wow! :D, That's Amazing! :D l loved the sound of the Pancake-Drum, With the Snares, On the bottom, Much, Better! :D

Ficou muito massa o som e com várias possibilidades de som.

This is great info!!! Thank you for making it. I love the higher tuning and wires on the bottom. Very trashy. Throw a Big Fat Snare Drum jingle muffler on it might be cool.

Nice sound!!!💯🥁🤓

Love it

Exactly the vid I needed. Wanted to know if the swivel nuts would work like this. Thanks!

That’s cool!

Hey dude! Great job. I am glad I found your channel, another guy fixing and building drums- awesome. Also, I see that you're in Oshkosh- I lived in the U.P for six years and did a ton of restorations there :) Keep it up man!

This is so bad ass

Pancake. Yummy

neat project. That snare would be great with a set of Purecussion toms and kick for a super lightweight practice kit.

Your video gave me a great idea for a snare I made and made the shell too short that both heads bottom out on the lugs

Could've maybe tried 13 snare wires and got creative with the implementation? A thought 👍. Sounded good for that coffee shop vibe

Sweet

))) I made this from aluminum a couple of years ago. sounds good too.

Those wires seems like it might be a better solution form a Snom than traditional snare wires.

Sounds good to me. Snare on top sounds best.

This is a very nice build! I was just wondering... There are some short and flat lugs you could have used in an offset positioning. This would have allowed double tension so you could fine tune this slim snare. What do you think?

New subscriber here! This is exactly what I was looking for. Is that “shell” 3” depth? It honestly sounds better than other pancake snares I’ve heard around RU-vid. Great content!

Wow! This is killer. It should be manufactured on a large scale. I gotta go back and figure out how you built a snare that goes to the top and bottom head. More attack with snares on top! I have pretty bad ringing in the ears and sensitivity the sound from playing drums and I'm wondering if you think one of these pancakes snares are going to clearly be quieter than a deeper drum? My initial thought was there would be so much more attack and a higher-pitched would affect my ears more than a 5 or 6" snare but these 2" pancake snares have so much less body that it may be ideal for my hearing.

Nice!!

I'd like to hear it if it had two snare wires inside, one on the top head and one on the bottom.

Man the sound is fantastic can you "Vst" this? into a Kit Like Skinny Bassdrum Pancake Snare and 14 inch hi hats (Paiste 14" PSTX Swiss.)?

Wow i liked, how many height Shell ?

wow the A&F's have rust on the parts? or is that patina?

Meteu uma vaneira...

Hi hats? Size?

slammed the fuck outta the sub button great content!

Shit, high tension with the snares on the bottom sounds pretty legit for shit laying around.

DRUMS ON SALE closed :(

Wanna sell it?

1 year too late, and I know you don't want to invest any more money into this project, but still: I'd file the holes on one of the rims to accept square lug inserts, rather than rely on friction. Also I'd use a conventional batter head and put a diplomat snare on the snare side. The super thin head will produce a higher pitch under single tension and add sensitivity. And I'd think about modifying the LP mini-snare throw-off to control full sized internal or even perhaps external snares. Not sure how, but what immediately springs to mind is this: use snares with string, rather than plastic straps. Install a simple "eye plate" (maritime for a mounted ring) opposite the throw-off, it'll serve as buttplate (let strings run loose in a loop, it'll equalize tension side-to-side). Then drill and grommet two small holes right under the T-handle of the throw-off and feed the string ends into the mechanism. If it can tension those rudimentary snare, it can tension the string connecting the external snares.

You don't had many drummer

I can get that same sound from my Ludwig chrome acrolite, actually I can get any sound I want from it. The only thing stupider than a pancake snare is DYIing one 🤮