The name Rogers Dynasonic (Clone) bothers me and there is no way this cloned Dyna is worth $800.The 65`hardware could be worth some nice return but i`ll let the Rogers guys weigh in on this one.Pics would be a great help for them to evaluate your question.

Wayne

Wayne is right, pictures needed along with a sound check. If it sounds like a Dynasonic and that is the sound you want, then it would constitute a significant savings over buying an original. It will also tend to help those of us with real COB models to see increasing value in our drums! As to what to look for, 45 degree cut and counter-cut to center ply of shell, 0.004 snare bed and something similar overall in weight and thickness. If those vary from Rogers specifications very much, it might not sound the same as the real thing.

A professionally built reproduction shell seems to run to about 5/8th of the cost you are contemplating for the entire drum.

Just curious, but why a dynasonic and why are you willing to put $800 in a reproduction? I own a couple of mid 60's wood dynas and have always chosen my wood Powertones over them for playing. You can obtain a real Powertone for half the asking price of the reproduction.

A Ferrari kit car ordered out of the back pages of a magazine is still just that.......... a cheap reproduction. And it doesn't matter how many genuine "Ferrari" nameplates you put on it. Or, how many real Ferrari it is parked alongside. It will never be a Ferrari.

This clone will never be a Dyna-Sonic. And you have to accept participation in the destruction of one very nice drum that was genuine, so that the parts could be obtained to make a fake.

So why a clone? .......... In my opinion (which I don't expect anyone to agree with or like, and quite frankly, I don't care) ........Because the real one costs too much. And I can build it cheaper or buy it cheaper than the real thing.. And honestly, a clone because the real thing is overpriced, not worth the money, and...... bottom line..... do you have any idea how many people are going to see that and think how cool I am because I have a Rogers Dyna-Sonic.?

I don't understand how a clone increases the value of my COB Dyna-Sonics as I am never going to strip one of them down or sell it to someone who has the intent to destroy it to build a fake drum so he can brag about how cool he would be if he wasn't so damn cheap.

I am against clones and fakes. Even the good ones.

Keep them original.

Thanks for the replies here. I never wanted the dynasonic. I just want to sell one of my kits, and the guy only has $1000. He offered up the dynasonic clone to get the deal closer to my $1700 asking price. My plan was to try to sell the drum, but if what I'm hearing here is accurate I wouldn't get anywhere near $700 for it. Thanks for the help.

My whole interest in vintage drums is kinda of a clone arrangement. I've bought them after the fact because I couldn't afford them when they were new. My first kit was an MIJ and a Slingerland clone. So I was grooving on clones from day one. I had an Austin Healey Sprite MK I, but I really wanted a 3000 MKIV. Still haven't gotten one of those, and part of the reason is that the price kept going up at a rate I could never catch up to. Kind of like wooden Dynasonics that started out a $150.

Given that the production of COB Dynasonics never seems to find us exhausting the supply, it also doesn't appear to be much of a travesty to take one with a dented shell/scratched shell and put a wooden shell to it. Is it better to have the real wooden Dynasonic? Absolutely, but sometimes you simply cannot justify that cost. I do think they should be clearly marked as a reproduction.

I only have a real one because I got it for a ridiculously low price. But I really like the sound and wouldn't be discouraged from making a clone in another color if the right opportunity presented itself. Otherwise, perfectly happy with a COB.

As to the comment on PowerTones, wood or COB; really good drums. But they have a much different sound than a Dynasonic. If you want the Dynasonic sound, I don't think you can expect it to come out of a PowerTone.

PS - I never once used my Dynasonic so someone would think better of me than if I used my PowerTone. I use each as they work best in a given situation. However, I'm finding lately that the Dynasonic is capable of doing all I need to do based on my relatively limited skills and opportunities these days. Plus, I love the architecture of those drums.

Now, I do use my Rogers drums for that reason in part. It's like Tony Williams said: You want to sound good, but you want to look good too. Cool DudeCool Dude.

That's why I'm seldom seen on the products of other US manufacturers. Laughing HLaughing H

I agree that a wood Power tone can sound as good as a wood Dynasonic. I would buy a clone Dynasonic for around $200 but no more. I would be sure to include the fact that it is a clone in any discussion I had about the drum.