The Framers Forum

This is a fairly easy way to frame a drum head, as long as you have the means to cut a circular aperture in a mount.

It requires two coved boxes. The inner box has a circular cut-out with an aperture that will allow the head through but not the rim. The height of this box needs to be sufficient to clear the distance between the top of the rim and the surface of the head, in this example - 15mm.

The overall dimension of the outer box is the same as the inner box (+1mm) with a slightly steeper angle to the cove, and deeper by the height of the rim. The gap between the inner and outer boxes, being the height of the rim, holds the drum head in place, however applying a bit of adhesive tape between the rim and the back of the inner box may prevent future rotation.


The drum Head

Inner coved box with circular aperture rests on the rim allowing the head to protrude.

Nice job John..........................is the black ordinary mount board, I think perhaps I would have used suede board or black velvet?

But I'm sure the customer is delighted

Ian

I think it looks great John. Really sleek sitting in the black mount.
I don't think I'd have chosen that moulding though. It's pretty traditional but the drum head seems more modern. I'd have picked a chunky metallic moulding.

This was posted simply to demonstrate a framing method.

At Scenes, the customer gets to chose moulding, frame, etc.

Of course we are always happy to give advice to the customer on aesthetics, but only if asked, and even then we go out of our way to make it clear that we will not take the least offence if our advice is not followed.

Always interesting to hear what framers would have chosen if they were customers, though.

Great job. I have been asked to do drum sticks but never a drum head.

I recently did sticks and a head but seperate frames, signed by different drummers.
For the head I cut a circular bevel on foam board, very slightly larger diameter than the internal of the head. Glued the foam board to crimson suedette, gentle forced the head over the reverse bevel. Finished off with Onyx circular mount spaced to sit above showing full head and crimson suedette.
No glue or tape etc. touching the head.
Looked the dogs, or so the customer said.
This was a re- frame after the original "framer" had sandwiched the head between the back mount and the glass in a frame with small rebate so the backing board bowed out back, twit. Did I spell that right?

The sticks for the above job were also a re-frame.
The original framer had used double side tape the length of the sticks, the sticks fell off the backing the first night the frame was hung! Customer took the frame back and had it re-done, this time the "framer" stapled Velcro onto the sticks, they fell off the backing the first night the frame was hung! Twat, did I spell that right?
I re-framed, mounted using melenex (!) and beige cotton. A month later still in place.
Just using methods explained on the forum.

I think you did spell that correctly

A guy asked me to do one of these so's he could take it out and use it - I told him to beat it!

We've never been asked to do this before, but it's great to know that just in case, I have the knowledge of how to achieve it! Good job.

We've done quite a few. This is the latest one and framed as the customer requested

Nice looking job John!

This is my own drum skin that i got at a concert about eight years ago and framed the next day. I still quite like it but you can perhaps tell that i was eighteen at the time and thought that black was the best colour...for everything.