Ran until 2005 or so when they stopped making drums and as of today and emailing Tommy he still trying to get Fibes running again, hopefully there will be a revival of Fibes.
Then there was Austin Fibes Drums who bought the tooling from Darwin as well as the Trade mark of Fibes and started building everything I guess (fiberglass, acrylics and wood drums), Jasper shells in their beginnings until they ran out of Jasper stock and started building their own shells which seems that they went from the 6 ply (maple/gum wood combo) to a 7 ply shell. Don't know what type of shell they used in their drums. Then there was also Cannon drums who made wood snares using the SFT system, however used different lugs. They also changed the bottom hoops on their snares, lugs remain the same as Corder's. Company sold to darwin drums in 1990 ran until 1994, as it seems Darwin continued with jasper shells however also used some shells made of maple with Remo Acousticon for bass drums and toms. There were changes coming from the original Fibes, not just shells but the hardware, lugs were different, tension knob was changed to a smaller knob, bottom hoop was kept the same as the old Fibes however it seems that it got changed later on as I've seen snares with bottom hoops similar or same as the ones seen in the Austin Fibes one. Made the SFT 690 system work on a wood snare, however they did not produced fiberglass shells instead moved to Jasper/ keller shells as well as to continue producing acrylic drums. Sold to Corder in late 70's who had a run until 1990, I think Jim Corder was a pioneer. They are very nice folks to deal with as well.Īll this good service.I wanted to do this for a while, just didn't have the time.I've read as much as I could about Fibes drums and the hierarchy line and how much changes there have been between different ownerships, since Bob Grauso and John Morena created Fibes drums (fiber glass drums and acrylics) in mid 1960's up to 1970 when they sold the company to C.F Martin who continue making fiberglass and acrylic drums (however it seems that quality at this point was not the same as it used to be with Bob's drums). This being the case, I also cancelled my request for the bass drum mounted cymbal arm.
#What drummers used fibes drums crack#
They said it is twice a likely to crack the shell on a 26" diameter drum.
#What drummers used fibes drums install#
The only thing I asked for that they would recommend not doing (and would void all warranties) was to install the 1973 Ludwig rail consolette tom mount.
They are shipping my drums with Ludwig silver dot batter heads, clear ambassador resos, black wood hoops with a custom gold sparkle inlay, and t-rods on the bass drum vs. If you can believe this - I was able to special order a 26" Pearl mesh practice head through Pearl!!!! If thats not service I don't know what is.įibes will do ANYTHING you want when you custom order a kit - sort of like a Masterworks. I only used mine for a rehearsal kit at home. The older vistalights I found to simply be to fragile. I have always wanted a bonham kit, but also wanted to be able to play it "out" once in a while. I just sold my clear vistalite and ordered an amber crystalite Fibes kit - 26x16 virgin bass, 14x10, 16x16, 16x18 (gee, can you tell what I am building!).
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