Lessons Learned, and My Dragonfly Hank Drum

Lessons I learned from making my first Hank drum, and showing off my second drum, the Dragonfly Hank Drum

Category:

Education

Tags:

• dragonfly
• hank
• drum
• tank
• tips
• lessons
• learned
• help
• advice
• wings
• ideas

[stonesthrowmn]

Kingovviking - If I ever make another, I will likely try square tongues. My goal for the dragonfly hank was for the wings to be the tongues. It was a pain in the butt, but it worked fairly well.

[cheyyne]

Thanks for the insights, I'm not satisfied with my first drum either and I'm going to start on the second tomorrow. Jumping straight into the square tongues - I'm going to try to emulate a certain 'happy' manufacturer in my design and see how that works out over the frustrating curved tongues.

[psychomikeo500]

like your artistic design. wish i had a better idea as to proportion as i have several more used tanks i can mess with here

[dhavlena]

HI Much liked your observations/ideas! The dragonfly theme is great!

Tuned beautifully as well. Good job

Dennis Havlena 

[schmood1971]

s9Teen - The first step was to lay it out and cut the wings/tongues. Then the background colors were spray painted. The dragonfly bodies were painted by hand with a brush and a paint pen. Then the dragonfly wings were masked off and spray painted. Then I used a Dremel tool to cut the wing veins into the base metal so that they had a metallic color. Lastly it was all clear coated to protect the paint and keep the wing veins shiney.

[s9TeeN]

The Dragonfly Hank has some great tones in the deep tongues! Nice work. I was wondering however how you painted it? Simply spray paint good enough or do you need a special kind of paint?

[kingovviking]

Well done fellow "Hank Drum Instrumentalist." Have you ever considered making your tongues rectangular? It sure helps a lot.