If you want the thickness of calf skin, price of goat skin, and quality of a professional. Look no further!I goat these skins because I wanted to practice making tabla heads and there braids. Being new to drum head making I wanted something that would be durable and to both tension and a newbie trying to tie braids through them. Well, I got what I asked for! And then some!The skins are equally thick all around with the depth of a conga head. I put one on one of my drums I'm practicing making heads and because of the thickness it makes a kinda memory around the edge of the drum, like foam mattress or metal spring so it's really difficult to get out of tune.The tone is great, loud and crisp. I'd honestly put it up there with professional concert quality, so if you play with a band and you don't want the other instruments to drown you out, give these skins a try.Over all great price, quality and functionality.

A great skin for my drum, but I would not call it “thick”, as advertised.

Excellent product great value

As advertised, received it on time.

Buen precio

I used this for a new tambourine head-- mine got broken while travelling, and I had no head on it for many years. I'm so pleased it's fixed again! The process of soaking, stretching, gluing down and drying only took a day, and it tightened up properly as it dried. My only quibble is that there's one sort of dark patch that didn't really clean up well. But I'm thinking maybe that's just a natural variation in the material, and not anyone's fault. Maybe I'll paint it or something later.

It is quite thin but plenty tough; made a nice hand drum. Pretty good quality, no holes or very thin spots, a bit of hair visible in places, hardly noticeable.

this skin arrived clean and ready to soak for installation on my African Djembe drum. shrunk well after it dried and has beautiful sound. well worth the money. ( Must soak in room temp water for a day or more.)

I replaced a head on a 1920's banjolinAnd it worked great

Exactly what I ordered

Worked great and happy with sound quality too. This was my first rebuild of a drum. I hope to do more and will buy again

Nice hide, easy to install after a short soak. I dipped it in some walnut stain and it turned out a nice color. Looks and sounds much better than the usual plastic heads.

Nice hide, easy to install after a short soak. I dipped it in some walnut stain and it turned out a nice color. Looks and sounds much better than the usual plastic heads.

I like

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I put this on a small djembe (10”) and it sounds and fit perfect. Thank you for providing a simple way to get a new skin for my drum and make it playable again!

My banjaurine sounds great!

I have changed bongo, conga and djembe heads. I ordered two of these for my LP Aspire bongos. The first one tore during installation. I took this as due to error on my part, although this had never happened before. Then I installed the second one.I kept having trouble tuning it. I would tune it, come back to it and it would be out of tune again. During a a series of rehearsals and performances I noticed that this cycle was repeating more quickly. i thought maybe this was due to the extra humid and moist conditions. Summer, 2021, was a very rainy season and when there is no rain, there is still plenty of humidity. During a performance, it finally happened, the CRACK! heard around the world, well all over Middletown, NJ, anyway. I was tuning it. The pitch was not changing, and then...CRACK! The thing just popped - loudly!This was the first time I have ever experienced or even heard of this. I assume it happens more often than I am aware. I know stick drummers break heads all the time. Bongos and other hand drums rupturing during tuning is something I have never heard or experienced. Nothing traumatic, just a note.These skins are good for toy instruments, tambours, tambourines and other hand instruments that do not require high tension. Bongos, congas, djembes, dumbeks, and the like, especially those that are mechanically tuned require higher tension than these skins can withstand.

I'm sure it's fine with the dents. My concern was the holes, around the outer circle there's a staple length hole and closer toward the center it is super thinned where another 3 or 4 small nail size holes. I put 2 stars but that might just be my lack of experience in this area, it just doesn't look good for my first try at a drum.

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