top of page
Hills Mallets
Jul 28, 20241 min read
Ohhh baby, flannels are a comin'...
So old mate has dived into the 3D Printing multiverse recently. You know what seems like it would be really easy to print but really...
25 views0 comments
Hills Mallets
Feb 9, 20231 min read
A Restoration: Part 3
The amount of things that I know that I don't know is really, really big. But it doesn't approach the number of things I don't know that...
17 views0 comments
Hills Mallets
Nov 5, 20222 min read
A Restoration: Part 2
As a fun little start to this follow-up post, I was able to find the catalogue where this model of timpani first appear - they're...
22 views0 comments
Hills Mallets
Oct 29, 20222 min read
Drum kit mallets have dropped!
This has been a fun ride, and the end result is one I'm very happy with. At the end of 2021 I was toying with the idea of creating a...
20 views0 comments
Hills Mallets
Oct 16, 20221 min read
Finally - the right chamois sound
It seemed very, very easy to create the perfect chamois mallet when I came up with the original Bright Chamois design. That mallet was...
50 views0 comments
Hills Mallets
Sep 19, 20221 min read
Oh no! There's a problem with the Generals!
It's a delightful problem to have, because I have had a number of Scholar Series General mallets find new homes around Adelaide. They...
31 views0 comments
Hills Mallets
Aug 26, 20221 min read
A Restoration
Sitting in a cold and dark storage room, Amanda Grigg found two Sonor hand-tuned timpani from the 1930s in dire conditions when she took...
25 views0 comments
bottom of page