In this video I’m reviewing three Entity stave snare drums from Australia in 14"x4", 14"x5.5", and 14"x7". I’ve been using them on gigs for a couple weeks, and overall I really love them—especially the sound. The shells alternate Jarrah (hard, bright, high Janka) and Mahogany (soft, warm, porous), and that combo gives you a voice that’s honestly hard to place: to my ear it’s somewhere between a Brady stave drum and an old WFL mahogany ply drum. I play each drum by itself, show construction details and the inside of the shell, then put them on the kit and compare them to WFL drums that are very close in size. I’m also totally honest about the issues: the Trick GS7 strainer on my 7" (and sometimes the 4") had rattle and “game-playing” problems when turning the snares off, which is a dealbreaker for recording and for how I play (I turn snares off a lot for Afro-Cuban/Brazilian stuff). I show a temporary tape fix, but my real takeaway is the shells are elite—hardware needs attention. The other big surprise: I didn’t need muffling, even on the 4" drum, and that’s a huge win for these mahogany-heavy shells.