American-made custom drums.
All Collector’s Series® drums are handcrafted in Oxnard, California with the same passion and imagination that ignited a custom drums revolution.
Build the drums of your dreams.
Each custom Collector’s Series kit begins with a dream. DW shapes that dream into an instrument with the finest materials, legendary craftsmanship, and hand-applied finishes. The result is a look and sound you’d always dreamt of.
Customize your sound.DW’s dynamic range of hand-selected tone woods and Specialized Shell Configuration (SSC) are the foundation to build your unique sound.
WoodsDW offers the finest hand-selected woods for drummaking from around the globe.
Specialized Shell Configuration (SSC)DW layers plies cut to different grain orientations—horizontal, vertical, and diagonal (X-shell)—to lower the fundamental pitch of shells, maximize resonance, and produce a complete instrument.
Custom curated configurations.Some drum tones are iconic, so the DW Custom Shop used their decades of tonal expertise to curate shells for specific musical styles...
Classics: Revives big band-era tone with modern shell construction and hardware innovations.
Contemporary Classic: These shells produce the vintage qualities of the Classics Series with focused tonality in a 7-ply construction.
Jazz: Hybrid Gum shells deliver warm, refined tone suitable for bebop to fusion in live and studio environments.
Santa Monica: DW’s original, all-Maple shell formula returns with modern craftsmanship and innovations.
