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Kinda more wiring than I had originally intended to cram into this box :P

Soooo yeah... been a while since my last post, partly because of a slight case of apendicitis! So progress has pretty much looked like this for a while...    :P

Got the crossbars in for the triggers, gone for off-centre triggers as I want to avoid the "hot-spot" effect in the middle. Quite like the wooden look, keeps with the colour of the shells. Just need to get a few electronics and a couple of extra heads now!

Lugs off!

Made myself a cool bracket to attach my kick pedal to the kick drum, basically four pieces of timber, screwed together to form an I-Beam type construction, with a metal T-plate from Wickes, stained then varnished, and bolted to the bottom of the drum, works a treat, rather pleased with how it came out! :)

So yeah, I've been fancying a new electronic drum kit for a while now, and you can get some truly great looking kits now that look and feel like real drums (check out  http://www.jobekydrums.co.uk/  ) However. They cost moneys, lots of moneys. So I started looking into cheaper alternatives, and seems it's pretty popular to modify existing drum kits and doing electronic "conversions" to turn acoustic kits into ekits, and depending on what kind of kit you buy to convert, works out a lot cheaper than building a kit from the bare shells.