My inaugural YouTube video.

Part 1 of a stave snare drum build where I cover my process for cutting the staves and gluing them up to a rough drum.

This wood for this drum is milled from oak logs cut from a huge fallen limb that dropped a power line in my neighborhood. The limb took down the neighborhood's main power line, during a snow storm. We lost power for 3 days of, really cold, late November weather.

But I saw the opportunity to utilize the fallen lumber, having started building stave drums earlier that year(2018).

I've been trying to think of a name for my drum "enterprise". Push came to shove when I had to name this channel. "Fallen Oak Drums" it is.

So here is the first installment of my build videos. I hope you enjoy it, or at least tolerate it. Where this goes after the drum is complete (2-3 videos?), I have no idea!

After this first experience editing footage(taken on my Samsung S8), I have a greater appreciation for video editors everywhere. I watch a lot of YouTube myself. My hat's off to everyone that watch. It's a lot of work.