DIY Drum Enclosure Build

what's up guys welcome back to the channel today we're going to do things a little differently we're going to build a DIY drum enclosure we're going to build the sink from start to finish and see what works and what doesn't and experiment along the way be sure to watch the full videos the plans do change around a bit as we discover things as we go our plan worked as a great guide for us but some things don't work out in the real world quite the same way they do on paper in the end we ended up with a gorgeous drum enclosure that is super effective in muting our live drum sound [Music] so before we get started I want to plan out a few things if you're wanting to follow along with the build and make an enclosure with a curved front piece you want polycarbonate not acrylic lexan is the polycarbonate as plexiglass is to acrylic these are just name brands polycarbonate is bendable and virtually unbreakable that is why is also called bulletproof glass acrylic or plexiglass is well not because shipping a 10-foot piece of polycarbonate can get expensive your best bet might be to check with local glass retailers I called around a few window shops before finding one that could source me a piece in our desired dimensions I called asking for a quarter-inch thick 6 by 10 foot sheet and waited less than a week for them to receive it in their weekly shipments alright guys so today we're starting to build our drum enclosure all the plans this will be included in the link below this video so what we have done already is we have two four by eight sheets of plywood these are a quarter inch thick they're going to be the bottom of the bottom of a platform so these are eight foot wide we cut these down from 96 inches to 90 inches just because we're trying to keep it as small and tight as possible so these are 90 inches wide and we just had two of these lined up right next to each other so one of these is going to be where the drummer will sit and this front one will be where the bow will begin for our drum enclosure so because we have a 10 foot long piece of plexiglass that we're gonna use for the front we have already had we already have our numbers figure it up thanks to this video that I'm going to put a link above right here they've already done all the math for us so we're just gonna use their plans and kind of build on top of that I just want to pause right here to say that they do an excellent job of explaining what all these numbers mean and if you're wanting to build an enclosure with different dimensions you will find a link to this calculator in their video it's probably just a good idea to pause this video for real right now and go watch their video consider a prerequisite to this video so the arc of our circle bows out thirty-three point three five four inches there's not the radius since it's not going to be a perfect semicircle on the edges they're still going to be a little bit of an angle I'm transitioning from our flat sides into the bow so we're going to put our thirty three point three five four inch mark starting from the very end of our straight piece of plywood so we're going to measure thirty three point three five four inches from our seam of our first four by eight so thirty-three point three five four inches comes out to right here this is gonna be where the tip of our arc sets or the edge of our circle is we're then going to use our race to the circle 47 inches and measure in from that end point and that is where we're going to put our screw for our straight edge to then rotate around to create our arc alright now that our screw is in we're going to hook our straight edge there I've already measured two lengths of this it ends up being just about four to seven inches so I'm going to hold my pencil on the edge here and that looks like it is lining up perfectly to the edge to the corner of our board I'm just going to hold this on here while I'm putting pressure on the straight edge we're going to make our art so that should hit that end point is going to move so much stuff out of the way right under the corner just like that hunter is impressed alright so now we have our arc that our Plexiglas is gonna run along I'm sorry there are poly car but it's gonna run along make sure you get wax and polycarbonate that is the bendable stuff Plexiglas is not bendable so on that we just drew on a piece of plywood is actually gonna be the groove that we're gonna route for our polycarbonate sheet I'm going to move our screw forward by half an inch one inch happening we're gonna move Russia forward by one inch and that will create then the arc for us to cut along just so there's a little bit of a lip in front of our piece of lexan so we're now gonna do the same process to make a line on which we will cut along hey so just so you know moving the circle forward one inch does not create a perfect 1 inch lip all the way around we would have to make our radius one inch longer you'll have to excuse my friend it's a little slow so it's 1 inch at this very point but on the sides is not an inch I think it's fine i think just cut along the line mm-hmm at this point in the bill Hunter cut along our white cut line and we begin studying off the base with two by fours we don't know if it did anything to help dampen sound transferred through the base to our stage but we had some insulation laying around that was going to be thrown away so we filled the empty spaces with it once this was done we begin tacking on our 3/4 inch ply to the top of the finish nailer which was a thicker ply for the top since we knew this side would see foot traffic and we wanted to eliminate any bowing at this point we're eager to see if our arc measurement was correct and held our Lexie in a place around the base to check after some more thought we decided it may be a good idea to add some more supports on the outer edges of our studs I drew both arcs again on the second piece of three-quarter play and we tacked it on as well as screwed everything down to make sure it was secure if I were to ever build another enclosure one thing I would do differently is run a couple of studs all the way from the front to back to offer better support between the two sections in the platform there were times when we were moving it when we had to be very careful to not just lift up by the front of the platform for fear of the screws ripping out this is what our finished platform looks like right now so as well as adding the extra boxes on the ends we've also added a couple support pieces two by four just on the very ends right there as well as out here just to give us a little bit extra support it's 3/4 plywood is actually pretty sturdy so if there's not a lot of weight being put on those ends I don't know who necessary completely is so there's the other end and we will be adding a skirt around the end wheel just getting some really thin plywood and bending it around the front of this to cover up those insides okay so what I've done here is I've rigged up a jig to run my router on you can see if I slide it it'll go around our deck in a perfect circle I have set the lengths to be exactly as the arch that I drew before with our straightedge I just used a scrap piece of plywood for my jig and what I've done is I've set up a quarter inch straight bit in the router what that's gonna do is cut out just a little tiny pocket in the wood I have it set to about a quarter inch deep that our lexan will then fit into the groove and then slide into around the distance of our art so I'm gonna go ahead and cut that now I'll walk that prevent it from turning on accidentally and we can take a look at our groove so here we're looking at our quarter inch wide by quarter inch deep groove that we have just routed into our top layer of our deck you can see it does actually go past that seam little bit that's because the center of that cut was supposed to start on that corner which looks like it did so I wanted to make this just deep enough to be able to hold the whole X in and not be worried about it slipping out anything I didn't want to make it too deep though for us to lose some height because it's only six feet tall I decided on quarter inch deep so that that takes away only a total of a half inch of our height because we will be routing the same quarter inch groove on the top panel of our enclosure so since we lose a total of a half inch due to our groove on the bottom and the top our 6-foot high enclosure now becomes seventy one and a half inches instead of seventy two so I'm going to start making our back wall by cutting the sides that are gonna be 71 and a half inches on line up our mark and make our cut [Music] our back wall the studs are gonna be made out of one by twos and that is going to cut down on cost and weight so as long as it's rigid it'll be good to go so we got our back wall studded out and framed out with the 1 by twos on our pieces of plywood on a quarter inch piece of plywood we're about to cut our next two pieces of plywood and put on the other side I think we're going to put some more insulation in these boxes though before we screw everything down so we're just holding the back wall on here and we put our kick drum on there for reference as well as the seat and it seems like there's gonna be plenty of room for us to be Dromund we also checked the plexiglass earlier in our groove it looks like it's gonna end up working out perfect so here's what its gonna look like wave to the camera hona cool will you touch the back of our platform using a combination of L brackets and straight brackets while this won't immediately feel all that sturdy it becomes very solid once everything is in place and secured together another thing worth pointing out is to leave a quarter inch or so on either side of the back where your lexan sheets a recycled drum shield like we used consider base that is also something to note in the next step when setting your vertical studs leave just a little space to accommodate your siding of choice onto the platform and our new space there's hunter moving our old drum shield we are putting our uprights on the base attaching on just with some L brackets from Home Depot and we're gonna put two more on here and we will continue our build it was at this point that we realized if we were to stick to our original plan there would be a two before stud blocking any jumps from being moved in or out we decided to change up our door system and aim for making an accordion-style door that would allow the entire side to open up in order to move gems in and out as needed have our exoskeleton complete honors cleaning up some of the excess stuff we're leaving the beam on this side off because we think it'll be easier for our door easier to get stuff in and out so we will keep you updated on that we've got screwed out to be able to put the 3/4 inch plywood on top and then we can start for the front it calms the paint painting is pretty self-explanatory but the objective here was to only cover the parts that would be visible we knew we are going to carpet the platform but also knew that specific parts would be exposed such as the area budding up to the groove the outer lip and areas around our two-by-fours that might show through hi guys I'm ready to start gluing down our carpet for the drum enclosure what we have here are some I think they're either foot and a half foot in half or two by two foot carpet squares I don't think you have to glue these down but we're going to glue these down just so we don't have the kick-drum kind of pushing the carpet so here we go we got some leftover carpet glue from the rest of our building that was being carpeted so what I'm doing is using a trowel it was made for carpeting laying down flooring so you trying to focus I'm just scooping a little bit of glue out of our bucket here putting some down a little bit I'm using an edge so we see those lines and I'm sure I'm not doing this 90% correct but I'm not a carpenter or whatever you call people in the profession I'm just trying to get the job done my first piece down I just butted up against the wall and flush on that side and I'm going to continue laying these squares down I can see how it looks we're getting close this these carpet squares are kind of difficult to cut I'm trying to use a box cutter but I'm having to going with some like shears to cut it all maybe your carpet will be easier so I'm doing it just coming right up to our groove and cutting it doesn't be perfect because we're gonna end up putting a trim piece on the front of this this open space down here we're gonna put a trim piece of wood curved around with a little bit of a lip and hopefully that'll cover any unsightly parts in the carpet it's all carpeted and it is all blacked out we're trying to move it out so that we can get access to the back sides to put our plexiglass on there's hunter say hi hunter can we get a drill no move it out more okay we are drilling our Plexiglas to be our sides this is our plexi nor Alexian or lexington to the front this is our old drum shield that we are recycling for the sides of our drum enclosure we're getting these pre-drilled so that we can tack them on to our upright braces we're putting our foot high pieces cuz they have a five foot gum shield with the foot extenders putting the foot pieces on the bottom so the tops are just a solid piece all the way getting these done hunter is screwing these in tight just putting some washers we're in some tight quarters [Music] that's what it looks like from the outside tiny little wrought washers on our screws okay we've got our door on the right side so it opens kind of like an accordion we got some hinges we're able to just drill right through pre-drill the holes obviously and then we use nuts and machine screws to get it on the hinges we connected our extra 1 foot pieces using these straight ties just kind of sandwiched in between there so this latches and keeps it shut kind of like a bathroom stall edge found all the hardware at Home Depot ok so we're going to pause right here in the build the second and third major changes we had to make on the fly because the arcs section of the ceiling is mostly supported by the lexan that in itself was a bit of a challenge to install you might be able to figure out a better way or different order to do this in but we had to have a couple people support the ceiling while we attached it to the back section of the ceiling using some scrap two-by-fours once it was secured that way we were able to move the lexan into position and begin seating it into the grooves this was a bit of a nightmare because just as we would get one portion of it seated another would pop out of place here's where we encountered the big curveball once it was finally all in place the edges bowed out and we were unsure if it would start popping out again we screwed on some temporary support blocks to make sure it stayed seated in the grooves while we figured out how to remedy this situation what we settled on doing was adding two more two by fours with the edges bowed giving lexan somewhere to anchor to on the edges this solved her problem completely as is straightened out any flecks in the lexan and kept it from wanting to pop out of the grooves we added a second 2x4 at a slight angle to go along our groove and they got some screws with washers and just did a ton of them up and down that new 2x4 so that it is no longer bowing out on either side I made sure to pull our inside film out before we pegged it down so that there's no film stuck in between the two or four in the glass and now hunter and I will take that off dude that is gorgeous you literally can't tell there's lights in here you be able to see your reflection that's pretty good dude that is beautiful here I'm gonna bring the camera inside I act like you're playing don't there's oh my gosh dude it's you guy can't even tell where it begins and where it ends we're gonna take our temporary blocks out we're gonna try and glue down and caulk it as well but look how beautiful that is get some sweet looking reflections but on that it just looks like two floating half moons I know this doesn't do justice but some black caulk we're about to do on the outside bottom after caulking the top and bottom on the outside and inside we added the trim on the bottom edge of our platform and cut a small hole in the back wall to run some XLR through as soon as we finish we devoted a lot of our time to getting the rest of our church worship center set up and lit all during this build we had also been DIY all the stage lights you see along the back wall which we will cover in another video which I'll link to once it's available one last thing I wanted to touch on is our door system because of the tight quarters we had to work with the accordion style worked out really well for us well this door is still effective at containing the jump sound it is not airtight and it's louder to stand next to as opposed standing out in front of the enclosure this is something that could be improved on in the future but we are more than happy with the performance for right now let us know in the comments if you figure out a more effective door for your enclosure all right guys well we hope this video at least gets you excited to do some experimenting they maybe make a gentle enclosure of your own be sure to hit that subscribe button for future updates and more DIY videos and check out some of our other videos as well leave us a comment below and let us know how your build goes and if you make any awesome discoveries along the way thanks so much for giving us a watch and we'll see you soon you

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Length: 21min 22sec (1282 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 26 2020