As of January 2023 HighWood & Drum Builder will be in its new home down Thornes Wharf closer to central Wakefield. The new site will consist of a 4800sq ft facility including: New drum factory more than twice the size of our old workshop space. This will improve capacity and efficiency, allowing further development of […]
Wood is on the up – price increases incoming :(
Unfortunately the time has come that we have to put our cost up on ply shells & hoops, we have seen multiple increases since the pandemic began on raw materials such as veneer… birch has been hit the worst with another 25% increase happening in the last week…. combined with a utilities overhead doubling at […]
Xmas Closing, Brexit & 2021
Just to let all our clients know we close for xmas & new year at 5pm 18th December & we re-open in 2021 on Monday 4th January, but more info on this below. I want to extend a very special thank you to everyone who has ordered from us this year its been by far […]
May 2020 – Covid, Parts & Payments
I have been busy updating the site today, we have a new parts shipment landing this week so tube lugs & many other parts that have been out of stock are back in (at last). We have a few new lines, longer tubes for 8″ Deep shells Press Grommet/vents and Seamless Ali snare shells for […]
YAMAHAAAAA – parts & spares
We now stock & can source Yamaha parts & Hardware, will be uploading loads of Yamaha components, Brackets, mounts, wing nuts and other general spares… but if you have any Parts need for old & existing rums let us know, if they are available as current spares or from remaining old stock we will find […]
Merry Christmas – Holiday closing Info
Its that time again, we are closing for the Xmas break & New year on Friday the 21st December, we will be closed through until the 7th January as we will be doing stock take & accounting. I’d like to than all our Clients far & wide, Though fraught with challenges Drum Builder has managed grown a […]
Privacy GDPR & PARTS SHIPMENTS
We have recently updated our Privacy Policy & mailing list to comply with the new GDPR, if our privacy policy is of interest it can be found via our terms & conditions pages… if you are like me you will be utterly sick of it & GPDR is now a dirty word (not even a […]
Last Shipping Dates Before Xmas
Its that time of year, we will be stopping dispatching order for the year on Wed 20th Dec, though trues day the 19th is the last date for UK orders to be guaranteed delivery for xmas in UK by us. European orders need to be in by Thursday 14th..though we will continue to dispatch up […]
Tom Mounting Update – new products
Added a few new product to our tom mounting page, the popular drum suspension systems & we have sourced a high quality clamp on tom arm as we are asked for them a lot but the price of them seems to be flying through the roof, some of these types of mounts are selling at […]
New Products – INDe drum labs.
I’m very happy to announce we will soon be stocking the following INDe Drum Labs products. Designed in the USA INDe is making a solid name for its self making elegant, lightweight & low mass premium drum components, we will soon have their SB1 Snare strainer & their BR2 Tom suspension mounting bracket. SB1 Snare strainer […]
New Site launch offer, 10% off orders
Thats right, to celebrate our new web-shop , for a limited time we are offering 10% off all orders over £50, just add the Discount code: feb10 into the Coupon section before you check out. *offer is valid for the next 10 orders or until the end 29th feb, UK mainland orders only, offer only applies by using […]
New Website is live
Welcome to the refreshed and updated website, we are still adding inventory to the site, please bare with us over the next few days whilst we update everything, this is far more comprehensive online store than before with better stock control/indication & also better shipping allowances. we have dozens of new products on the way […]


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