DRUMMER CAFE

So I decided that $220 or whatever they cost, $150 for the Kelly Shu and $220 or so for the May mount...that it was WAAAAAY too much for something like that.

Then I saw the Mike Portnoy Mirage kit on Tama's site, and he had something different.  A light bulb went off in my mind, 'I can make that' I said!

So I did.  Check it out below, cost me nothing, used tools and materials that I had laying around.  2 cuts, one bend and drill 3 holes.  Done.  Sound easy?  Yeah, it was.  Worth 200 bucks?  I didn't think so either. 

Works like a champ though!

Oh, and uses existing hardware, cord goes up thru the tom mount, no modification to the drum at all!  I'm not meaning to brag, just excited!

Except you need to replace your Kick drumhead and get yourself a Kick Pad. 

Nice work; way to use your creativity!

I've done something like that in the past, but now the only Kick drum I own that has a Tom mount on it is my Yamaha Recording Custom kit.

I just used a two way universal drum hardware clamp and clamped that to the tom arm post for a similar setup. Then I made a shorter version like yours that was held by the spur screws ;>)

Boomerweps