leedy2 wrote:pcastag wrote:I personally have not heard of any issues with the new drums cracking like the old ones ,I had a set of CA. series that were made extremely well, didn't eally like the sound though, I've got some acunas now that I like much better for some reason, the CA were too dry. I also haven't heard of any warranty issues with any of the new drums, they did change ownership form DW to Sabian, but those are both well known companies. the new drums are made of some type of indonesian lightweight hardwood, the one that really stinky fruit comes from.
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the known company's are the one that give you the most head aces to make an exchange.I brought the Alex Acuna bongos i also brought a California series bongos from Gon bops direct. The wood that they use is what is call in the industry as green wood ,this is wood that is not aged. Aged wood cost a lot of money and it is easier to repair green wood than aged wood. So many of these company's buy a cheaper wood and put coats of fiber glass to protect wood or poly coat the drums so they don't crack. but they still crack , The Alex Acuna under the plastic coat they put they crack. On gom bop this has been a problem that I remember back since the Mariano era And today what Sabian is doing in there transition is bring back the old design model from the Mariano era. You will see other model soon to come made by Marino Bobadilla the original labels are coming back out. In todays market you are better off buying an old gon bop that is cracked and repair than the new ones the old wood has aged and dried it takes over 50 years for wood to dry proper and when wood is totally dry it will no longer crack that is when it reaches it peek of quality. In a drum sound then become excellent that why you play an 50+ years drum and it sounds so good. So by cutting the wood to shape it just making work easy nothing better one from the other. If I am not mistaken I posted a topic on woods used for congas that talk about this before how it is pick and dry wood. look it up.
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