Though the drums are awesome, it's difficult to play them properly while they're sitting in your lap, so I guess it's time for stands. My intent is to play these shime as part of a 'taiko set' with an odeko daiko on one side and a nagado diako on the other, or some similar arrangement, so I want the head of the shime to be on a level with the other drums. I measured a couple of our nagado from floor to top head and designed the shime stands to put the top head at the same height.
As usual, I started with a computer model.
As you can see it's a fairly simple design, so the main purpose the model served was to give me real world dimensions for all of my pieces without my having to do any of the math myself. As the design was fairly simple, construction wasn't difficult and they came together fairly quickly.
I was concerned about strength (we constantly beat on pretty much everything with sticks in taiko) so I doweled all of the joints to re-enforce them.
I didn't stain the stands. I try very hard to use water based finishes whenever possible, and I haven't found a water based stain I like, but I did give them three or four coats of polyurethane to seal the wood and to give them a more finished appearance.
I couldn't decide what I thought would be best to use for padding along the supports under the drum head so I used felt on one, polypropelene on the other. I'll see how they hold up and how well they protect the drum, etc, and decide which to go with on future stands.
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