On drums...

About two years ago I bought - and played until it's 8 inch big brother showed up - a 6.5 inch maple light Designer snare. While talking to Kelly today, I flipped it on its back and...turns out it's a 6.5 inch maple heavy Designer snare.

Que sera, sera.

Apparently some heavies booted out the factory door badged as lights, many of which, like mine, had bubinga inside as well as out. MIne has a stamp 0493, which I presume is 2004... which seems early for the so-called Drum Designs, the precursors of Skews, and way too early to have run out of badges.

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Gregory

The quality control at that factory.....it must have been the monday after oktoberfest.

Does it have a more full bodied sound that the other one, barring the depth difference?

Tim, I hate to admit that, given your qualification, I haven't the slightest. The unqualified answer is that it is more stingy. Drier. Too thin at higher tunings where the other shell still sounds good. But, trying to understand the source of that difference, whether it's the depth or shell thickness, is beyond my ability. The light shelled 8 is a very full sounding snare.

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Gregory

A simple badge mistake makes sense...

Assuming You already measured the shell, right?!?


Monday after Octoberfest... I like that...

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Goki - short from Goran

Let the good drums roll!!!

Not much about this drum "makes sense" in the Sonor line, Goki; it is a Designer with no tunesafe, no lug fittings for tunesafe, bubinga inside as well as out, and now the odd badging. The story I got from Shane was that it was a rep's drum. Anyone if free to guess why a rep would have had it, or what he did with it, in 2004.

No, I did not measure, but the thickness differential is very apparent without calipers... if you're looking for it. I was talking to Kelly on the phone and he asked me so I looked. ... He is looking at a light badged Designer kit that is actually heavy, bubinga in and out - that is the connection and why he asked.

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Gregory

http://cgi.ebay.com/Sonor-Designer-Heav ... 35adf8cf22

Yup - I see the point... Here a Maple LIGHT shell is advertised as heavy...

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Goki - short from Goran

Let the good drums roll!!!

The shells are SQ2 heavy shells (8mm plus some change on these). The badges say "Maple Light" probably because they stopped making "Maple Heavy" badges right about the time they stopped offering that shell option in the Designers in '97 (at least as a "catalog" item). I think you could still order the heavy shell, but you got "light badges."

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Ron- A.K.A "The Frenetic Rah Rah Guy"

Yes, that's a good example. Funny coincidence that it matches my snare in detail and in badging, but not in stamped date of mfg. Of course, the shell may have been lying around for years... but the inner veneer is an anomaly.

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Gregory