I am thinking of starting my slow-going in-home drum making buisness. I will be the only employee so I will only be doing one person at a time. Acrylic only too since I have a lack of skill in the area of painting. No, I won't be hiring anyone because I don't wanna have to pay anyone. Yeah, I'm a real cheapskate but hey, it's more fun when I do the whole thing. All shells are Keller.
Is there any good places to start a free website? That is the first thing I need to accomplish before starting.








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do you know what your doing?








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good luck with this acrylic endeavor...it's supposed to be the hardest to work with.

also, i would like to pose the same question as dose.








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Custom drums is a flooded market. They are loads of custom drum builders out there, and if you can bring anything new to the table you might as well skip dinner.

Also only doing acrylic narrows your consumer field even more, and acrylic is also difficult to work with. Unless you're competent already with drum building skills I wouldn't do it.

Since there is so many custom builders out there, and a small amount of buyers, it's very hard to make a profit. It's a boutique business.

How is acrylic hardest to work with?








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Acrylic is hard to work with because it cracks and mars easily. The only upside to it is that you don't have to apply a finish.

Really, the market IS over saturated. I swear, I see at least 10 new companies a week pop up. I do encourage you to get into building drums to build yourself the you've always wanted without having to sell a kidney but as far as starting a business, I wouldn't. There's a reason I build under Medicine Man and not my own name.








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honestly, i think drum building would be a great hobby if you're building for yourself, but i don't think that i would try to market anything due to the facts that timekeep has been talking about with the saturated market.








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anavrinIV wrote:

honestly, i think drum building would be a great hobby if you're building for yourself, but i don't think that i would try to market anything due to the facts that timekeep has been talking about with the saturated market.

agreed.

I'd love to build my own kit, but ahahaha no...

I'd also love to get a custom kit, but...no need for laughter on that one, thats just ridiculous.








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yea man,
i've thought about building drums off and on for awhile..
sure it would be really really fun,
but in order to make it you'd have to literally
make every drum perfect
with superior quality
and even then it would still be hard
you'd have to bring something different to the market
or have something that no one else does..
find that then you'll be good

agreed.

do it as a hobby.

i started building drums because i was sick of paying a ton of money for something i thought i could do myself.

after i did my first kit, other people asked me to build things for them. i have logos and came up with a "company" name, but it's pretty much all tongue and cheek.

so far i've done a bunch of snares and a few kits for friends and i'm happy with that.

as far as the 'only working with acrylics' thing goes... i think it's a bad move. it's extremely difficult to work with and mistakes will cost you a FORTUNE since shells aren't exactly cheap and fixing them isn't really possible.

Cheerful-Bear wrote:

I am thinking of starting my slow-going in-home drum making buisness. I will be the only employee so I will only be doing one person at a time. Acrylic only too since I have a lack of skill in the area of painting. No, I won't be hiring anyone because I don't wanna have to pay anyone. Yeah, I'm a real cheapskate but hey, it's more fun when I do the whole thing. All shells are Keller.
Is there any good places to start a free website? That is the first thing I need to accomplish before starting.

i just noticed a few other things with this that made me question if you really have any clue what you'd be doing.

first, you said you would use only keller shells, but you also would only would be working with acrylic. keller doesn't make acrylic shells.

second, you've obviously never done this before but you want to start promoting yourself through a website. if i'm buying a custom anything i guarantee that i want to see some finished products.

these things may be minor but they show that you are completely unprepared. you clearly don't know what all it takes to build a drum, and you don't even know what companies you'd be working with to get a finished product.

i'm not trying to discourage you from building drums, but you need to do some research first.








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