SJC Custom Drums

BUILT WITH PASSION, PLAYED WITH PRIDE EST. 2000 WHAT STARTED AS A HOBBY TURNED INTO AN OBSESSION TO CREATE THE MOST UNIQUE DRUMS ON THE PLANET. BACKED BY A MISSION TO DELIVER A ROCKSTAR EXPERIENCE, OUR PASSION IS TO CREATE DRUMS AS UNIQUE AS YOU ARE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST AND SUPPORT OF SJC CUSTOM DRUMS, WE LOOK FORWARD TO TURNING YOUR DREAMS INTO DRUMS.- THE SJC DRUMS FAMILY SJC Custom Drums strives to be the industry leader as the most creative drum manufacturer by creating a seamless & unforgettable experience. Determined to be more than the products we create, we aim to build a community of passionate musicians who inspire, educate, and motivate. We are committed to influencing a lifestyle and community that will resonate around the world, igniting a passion of expression through music. OUR STORY as told by co-founder Mike Ciprari Grandma's Basement As a pre-teen, my brother Scott started refurbishing drums in our Grandmother's basement in Dudley, Massachusetts. We both played in punk bands throughout high school (Scott in The Danger Strangers and me in No Trigger) and we had a love for putting on shows at VFW Halls in New England. From networking with other local bands to play, to spending many late nights at Kinko's creating flyers to promote the shows, to playing the shows and selling merch and meeting other musicians, our love of music and community brought us together with so many likeminded people in the scene and taught us a lot about grassroots marketing and hustle. We both continued to hone in our passion for drums and music. Scott crafted away in the basement and I learned how to design and code websites and began to create them for local bands out of my bedroom "office." We were living in a "pre social media world" and had to get creative to get our name out there and I loved every minute of it. This eventually led me to design the first SJC oval logo as well as a website for a local band out of Pittsburgh, PA called "After Curfew" led by drummer Pat Dee (our first legit customer!). As their conversations went on, Mike mentioned the concept of "SJC Drums" to Pat, and he had Scott build him a snare drum. The fact that Scott built this radical glitter snare drum out of our Grandma's basement to Pat's desired specs and we shipped it to his house and saw him make music on it, blew my mind. It still does. Drums 24/7 We eventually graduated high school and went off to college. Scott attended the University of Southern Maine in Portland, ME to achieve a degree in Music Education while I went off to UMass Dartmouth for marketing. We continued to play and build drums, and my band ended up getting signed to The Offspring's Dexter Holland own "Nitro Records" and I spent an entire summer building drums and writing what became "Canyoneer", which we recorded at the Blasting Room with legendary drummer Bill Stevenson. We hit the road pretty quickly after that and I was on tour playing my 1 of 3 custom SJC Drums, living the dream. Demand for our drums grew and we found ourselves driving home every weekend from college to meet at Grandma's basement to make drums. We built drums for our friends and Grandma Judy's house was constantly full of musicians stopping by to check out our work. I was going to shows 7 nights a week and driving all over New England to deliver and promote SJC. We hustled. When Ricky's bass drum got cracked when we shipped it out for the Aquabats! tour, we rebuilt it in a day and hopped in the van to drive to Cleveland, Ohio to deliver the replacement. They are Scott's favorite band, and we ended up following the tour back to Boston where we had the band sleep over our parents house and have an actual pool party with the kings of the pool parties. Seriously, we were living the dream! Going to the Vans Warped Tour in 2002 opened my eyes to a music scene I never knew existed. Seeing that many bands, drummers, fans, and booths where companies sold their product next to the band tents was overwhelmingly amazing and inspired me to want to be a part of that scene even more. Music education has always been really important to me, and I always found myself wanting to do more for the next generation of musicians. As we grew, we try to give back as much as we can so kids can have the same access to music programming and inspiration that I did when I was growing up. I was always so inspired by the Van Doren family's story starting and running Vans, and I was lucky enough to get connected to Steve Van Doren through Kevin Lyman. I met Steve for coffee, and he introduced me to many people on the Vans team. One thing lead to another, and Vans started to get involved to help make our pop up shops, workshops, and clinics we were hosting, and took them to a new level. Soon enough, Loyal To The Craft was born out of a desire to amplify access to music programming for kids around the world. We hustled and brought drummers like Jay Weinberg, Frank Zummo, Josh Manuel, and Jared Easterling all over the world to put on motivational clinics for the next generation of musicians to meet, talk shop, and watch the drummer put on a drum clinic... all for free and full of Vans and SJC goodies for the kids. We've donated instruments to schools around the USA, and seen smiles and the same passion in their eyes that we had when we were growing up, and it's something I am very proud of. The beat CONTINUES We have built some incredible drums and have been lucky to create a life's worth of amazing memories so far, and we couldn't do this without you, the SJC family. The support you all give us, from wearing an SJC t-shirt, engaging with us on social media, getting a quote on a drum, playing our drums proudly, all of it... it's mind blowing for us to see SJC logo tattoos (Scott's initials are on your skin forever!), the places we ship our drums to, and the support you all give us while we chase our dreams building drums. We're committed to nurturing this amazing community we call the SJC Family, and will forever be obsessed with creating the best sounding, most unique drums on the planet. Thank you for checking out our story so far! Sincerely, Mike Ciprari and the entire SJC Family