Acacia Pad (Only 12 made)
Pads are numbered from left to right, top to bottom, and listed in order in the options. This is another one-time, limited series of pads - they will never be made again - and I really don’t want to because Acacia is so hard. It is very high on the Janka hardness scale - meaning a super dense and heavy pad. The inertia disappears in to the end grain of these acacia discs - cut for wedding table decorations that did not happen. I love these pads so much, I made 17, kept 4 and gifted one - the remaining 12 are for the public. They were deeply inlayed to recess the 1/4” rubber into them and provide a hard rim that possibly only rosewood sticks would dent. Display it wood side up for a smart charcuterie board, then flip it over for some diddles to really impress your friends! These are gnarly chunks of tree that experience wood movement and might not sit flat - we have included three foam dots to support the pad if you need.
The Beetle Percussion Standard Pine Practice Pad is our original, 13" round beetle-killed pine, 1/4" tall recycled car tire rubber. Global temperatures have facilitated a pine beetle epidemic over the last decade and the result is millions of acres of dead forest in the West. In the Colorado Rocky Mountains alone, there are over 3.3 million acres of woodland that has been killed by a beetle infestation. The beetles burrow into the bark of the trees laying their eggs, and in the process a fungus carried by the beetles infects, kills and turns it's grain into a blue-grey color. Beetle Percussion produces our hand made ecologically helpful drum pads and other percussion products from these Colorado pines and other North American beetle-killed trees. We source the majority of our lumber from Colorado, but also other beetle affected states like 200 year old pines from Montana and beetle-killed ash trees from Kansas City. We give new life to an eyesore that would otherwise continue to produce carbon and remain a fire hazard. Our goal is to use as many recycled and reclaimed materials as possible to hand craft unique, high quality percussion products. The playing surface is made from recycled car tires from California. Of all the pads you own, shouldn’t at least one be good for the environment?