Ron Spagnardi of Modern Drummer magazine, and was presented to him in May of 1998. The world’s first Lake Superior Birch drum was built for Mr. That was one of a run of about 200 drums worldwide.The world’s first drum made from a single piece of 700 year-old Birdseye Maple wood salvaged from the bottom of Lake Superior was built by Johnny Craviotto with wood that Tom Freer had supplied. You can find out a bit more about the wood here – recently, I understand the term has been slightly appropriated by DW and has also been used to describe other woods of a similar historical background.Anyway, that drum twenty years ago was one of the Timeless Timbers built by Johnny Craviotto and marketed by DW. Timeless Timber’ refers to the wood/sunken logs found in the early 1990s in the depths of Lake Superior (and the wider Great Lakes area) which had been cut down in the 1800s and been submerged in the cold water for over 100 years. 38 out of total 200 snares, produced 1999 by Johnny Craviotto in 1999, USA. The most sought-after drum in the world, according to John Good, is the DW Craviotto Lake Superior solid shall snare-one of the timeless timber line of drums made by master craftsman John CraviottoDWĬraviotto 5 1/2 x 14 solid Shell Birdseye Maple, Lake Superior, Serial Nr.

Dw timeless timber birdseye maple