Black Out Birch Series Snares Meticulously crafted stave-shell drums designed for maximum projection, clarity, and control. Woodland Percussion originated as a summer project for company founder and mechanical engineer Allan Fausnaught. The goal was to build a snare entirely from scratch using the limited hand tools that were available in his family’s garden shed in rural Pennsylvania. Allan’s hobby soon turned into a small business that now offers a full range of handmade snares, drumsets, cajons, claves, and assorted hand percussion, as well as laser-etched kinetic art cymbals. For review, we were sent two Black Out Birch series stave-shell snares: a 5×13 ($679.99) and a 6×14 ($749.99). The Details With the Black Out Birch series, Fausnaught set out to design drums that yielded a high amount of attack for live applications while also producing great tone for studio recording. Birch was selected because it exhibits those qualities naturally, with an […]

October 2019 Issue