Our mission is to help you find your sound and your look.
Handshake Drums was created with the single purpose of helping musicians find their unique sound and visual expression. From custom builds and sizes, dialed-in bearing edges and the world’s most unique drum finishes, Handshake Drums celebrates individuality and helps you create and express the best music of your life. Elevate your sound and vision.
Collaborative and obsessive. Meet the maker, Mash Siemer.
Since receiving his first drum kit at age 12 Mash was imbued with a life-long passion for the drums. The Ludwig drum set gifted to him by his uncle demonstrated first-hand the power and beauty that drums can hold. After decades of a lucrative sales career in logistics and telecom, Mash embarked on a new and also distinctly American journey to master the art of drum making. Three years later he emerged from his paint booth pilgrimage having explored custom drum building and painting with a unique approach. By bringing classic lowrider car painting techniques to the drum making industry Mash realized that this type of handiwork was in short supply. The idea of Handshake Drums was born. When not meeting with customers and creating drums, Mash keeps busy with his 4 children and lives in Cincinnati.