Zebra Drums are based in the Netherlands. The company is owned and run by Sjoerd van den Beuken, who specializes in the making of handcrafted solid stave free floating drums and snare drums.

The latest edition to the Zebra drums arsenal is the Black Plane Series. These unique looking snare drums are made from the London Plane tree, which gives these snare drums a warm full bodied tone with a great attack. The shells are made with the Zebra drums standard fingerjointed quarter sawn staves and all have a thickness of 9 mm. They are finished with a special black stain and a raised walnut inlay that has been stained red. The final finish is completed after several coats of a satin oil. The snare drums are fitted with all black hardware, using a different lug design than offered with the standard line. Additionally they are fitted with 2.3 mm triple flanged hoops, a Trick strainer, Canopus wires with Zebra Drums’ own durable straps, Remo heads and Thread Locks (by Zebra Drums).

Every drum has it’s own serial number but next to that each Black Plane drum is stamped on the inside with a special black plane stamp. This way you know you have an original Black Plane.

Sjoerd constructs the snare drums using the same stave shell construction as his toms, but shell thickness can vary depending on the drum. Zebra Drums snare drums are purposely made using the conventional tuning system, because of two reasons:

1. The lower resonant head needs to be tuned really tight, while you can vary tuning with the batter head for optimal use;

2. The type of snare bed that is being used on all Zebra Drums' snares needs constant high tensioning for it to work to it's full potential.

• 14 x 5.5 London Plane Tree Snare
  
• 9mm Quarter Sawn Stave Shell
  
• Black Stain Finish with Centre Red Stained Raised Walnut Inlay
  
• 2.3mm Triple Flanged Black Chrome Hoops
  
• Unique Design Black Chrome Tubular Lugs
  
• Trick Snare Strainer
  
• Semi Gloss Oil FinishHand
  
• Made in the Netherlands
  
• Fitted with the new Zebra Thread Locks