They are 6 ply though, however the inner and outer maple layers are thinner, the gum wood layers are thicker as well as the mid maple layer.
Austin fibes used Jasper 45 degree bearing edges, however these shells were thicker than the ones on my Corder. I have to say, and I may be wrong though, they are not the same drums. Again significant changes coming from Corder and Darwin drums. Bought it from a well know drum collector, Mr. I recently acquired a Fibes Austin 5.5 x 14 snare with the SFT system. I had 2 corders snares, a 5 x 14 student model, 6 ply jasper shell with 45 degree bearing edges (sold it, I wanted the SFT 690 system), and an 8 x 14, 6 ply jasper shell, with the SFT 690 system, 30 degree bearing edge (at least that is what it looks to me) still have this one and love it. Ran until 2005 or so when they stopped making drums and as of today and emailing Tommy he still trying to get Fibes running again, hopefully there will be a revival of Fibes. Then there was Austin Fibes Drums who bought the tooling from Darwin as well as the Trade mark of Fibes and started building everything I guess (fiberglass, acrylics and wood drums), Jasper shells in their beginnings until they ran out of Jasper stock and started building their own shells which seems that they went from the 6 ply (maple/gum wood combo) to a 7 ply shell. Don't know what type of shell they used in their drums. Then there was also Cannon drums who made wood snares using the SFT system, however used different lugs. They also changed the bottom hoops on their snares, lugs remain the same as Corder's. Company sold to darwin drums in 1990 ran until 1994, as it seems Darwin continued with jasper shells however also used some shells made of maple with Remo Acousticon for bass drums and toms. There were changes coming from the original Fibes, not just shells but the hardware, lugs were different, tension knob was changed to a smaller knob, bottom hoop was kept the same as the old Fibes however it seems that it got changed later on as I've seen snares with bottom hoops similar or same as the ones seen in the Austin Fibes one. Made the SFT 690 system work on a wood snare, however they did not produced fiberglass shells instead moved to Jasper/ keller shells as well as to continue producing acrylic drums. Sold to Corder in late 70's who had a run until 1990, I think Jim Corder was a pioneer. I wanted to do this for a while, just didn't have the time.I've read as much as I could about Fibes drums and the hierarchy line and how much changes there have been between different ownerships, since Bob Grauso and John Morena created Fibes drums (fiber glass drums and acrylics) in mid 1960's up to 1970 when they sold the company to C.F Martin who continue making fiberglass and acrylic drums (however it seems that quality at this point was not the same as it used to be with Bob's drums).
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