i just made a snare fan for the top head of the main drum, so this photo shows just the cocktail drum itself. the tom and snare are not attached.
the yamaha snare came with a mount similar to the mounts on their club jordan kits. so i bought ANOTHER one of the same type of mounts and replaced the virtually worthless mount on the included peace 10" tom. i bought two cowbell L-brackets to mount the drums. i cut down the high hat arm that came with the peace set, and mounted the hi-hat holding portion of it to a piece of 1/4" steel stock.. or is it 3/8"s? whatever size. i cut the remainder of the arm down pretty small, and mounted the elbow-joint-thing on the end of that (which is what is holding the 8" splash). i'll take more photos of everything once my camera stops being so dumb.
for a finishing touch, i stuck a gremlin emblem on the front of the drum (that i kept from my old 1971 AMC gremlin). here's a picture of that..
i think that about covers it. i'm 24 and in a synth-pop band called roarbot which i write all the music for in addition to playing guitar and singing. there's some songs available for listening at www.cookievolcano.com (click on the roarbot button, and head for the sounds page. they're streaming mp3s, so they're a litle fuzzy sounding) the peace manhattan kit was the first "drum set" i had ever bought, and this is the first work i've ever done to any sort of drums. not too shabby, i don't think.
