Why Choose Free-Floating Snare Drums?
Free-floating snare drums eliminate all hardware contact with the shell, allowing it to resonate freely and produce a richer, more expressive tone. With longer sustain, improved projection, and greater sensitivity, a floating snare responds to your playing with unmatched clarity.
This is why studio drummers, builders, and tone‑hunters choose floating systems over traditional lug‑mounted designs.
Build Your Custom Floating Snare
Choose your shell, hardware, finish, and configuration. Whether you want a warm maple snare, a cutting ash shell, or a dark walnut tone, your custom build starts with the Z‑ring floating system.
Every Z-drums snare is one of a kind!
You can now own the most unique snare built to your preferences.
Order today and have your snare in less than 2 weeks.
The Z‑Drums Floating System
Our Z‑Drums chassis suspends the shell without drilling or hardware contact. This modular system allows you to:
Swap shells in minutes
Experiment with different woods
Maintain perfect tuning stability
Upgrade your snare without modification
It’s the most flexible snare system for drummers who love exploring new sounds.
Handcrafted Stave-Shell Snare Drums
Every Z Drums snare begins with a solid stave shell, handcrafted for strength, stability, and character. Stave construction produces a thicker, more resonant shell with a powerful voice and exceptional tuning stability.
Choose from maple, walnut, ash, or exotic woods — each offering its own tonal personality.
Finishes.
The wooden shell will be finished with natural hardwax or water-based French polish.
The wood can be colored with water-based wood stain. The stain is spryed on with an air brush.
The outer metal ring can be powder-coated or spray-painted with automotive paint.
The tube lugs are custom-made and can be prayed in the same colour as the ring.
Easy head change and tuning.
The outer ring holds all the hardware, making it very easy to change both the top and bottom heads without removing the snare wires.
Tuning is effortless, and the snare will sound booming when the heads are tuned in sync with the shell. The tuning will improve while playing.
Details.
The hardware can be used for wooden shells sizes 14×5.5, 14×6, and 14×6.5 inches.
All thicknesses and wood types can be used.
The snare wires can stay in place when changing heads. After removing the top head, the wooden shell can be taken out, and the bottom head can be removed and replaced.
The snare comes with a Hardcase© case.
A collector’s item because every snare is one of a kind.
Pascal Zrour - drummer and drum builder
Born in the Netherlands, now living in the UK. I started drumming when I was 12. The first drum set needed a lot of work, and I refurbished it myself. I was never shy to tweak the musical instruments and equipment I owned. Whenever there was a problem, I tried to fix it myself. When I got the opportunity to order a Sonor SQ2 set, I sat down to study the reason why a drum sounds like it does. Being meticulous about drum tuning and sound, I wanted a snare that sounded just like a favourite snare sound from a CD. As I build my music recording studio, I am aware that the sound from a recorded snare can be nothing like hearing it in the room. I was pleasantly surprised that the configuration of the SQ2 snare surpassed my expectations. It is still my favourite ‘shop-bought’ snare. Fast forward a decade, and I received the idea for the floating snare, which sparked the quest to build the prototype and test its feasibility. A year after the first working snare, I discovered that solid wood snares sound much better than a plywood shell. Researching this, I realised that making a stave shell is not that hard to do. Not much later, I made the first stave shell, and the result was a hit. The snare got field-tested a lot during jams and band practices. At the UK drum show in Liverpool in 2024, three of my stave shell floating snares were introduced to the public.