“Rhythm is everywhere! From the heartbeat of our mother to the movement of the sun, moon and tides! It’s in everything from spoken language to the body movements of a skilled craftsman!”

Sean has been drumming for over 25 years. When he’s not drumming, he’s building drums, drum stands and thrones. I have over 10 years on the drum and 30 plus years of business and art experience. We met through the Orlando drumming community in 2012, became a team in 2014 and set-up shop on Etsy in 2016.

OakenFire Rhythms is a full service hand drum shop. You'll find drums, drum stands and accessories made by drummers for drummers. Everything is painstakingly handmade and infused with love by us in our workshop. Nothing we do is mass produced. Sean offers high quality craftsmanship and meticulous attention to detail. Aside from drums and stands we offer repairs, rebuilds, lessons, workshops, circle facilitation, summer camps, as well as performing at private and public events. We cater to customers who love drums, are tired of mass produced mediocrity and willing to pay more for high quality craftsmanship.

Our finished, ready to ship products are here in our Etsy shop. For custom orders, please visit our website at www.oakenfirerhythms.com where you can view our portfolio, learn about our other services, sign up for our newsletter and send us a message if you want to start a custom order. You can also contact us through Etsy convo.

Our priority is to serve drummers and the drumming community by providing unique, quality drums and accessories, sharing our knowledge, expertise, and love of the drum. We look forward to serving you.

Our Djembe Warranty Policy
At OakenFire Rhythms, we highly value both craftsmanship and customer service, and want to address the understandable concern about the longevity of natural skin heads on the instruments we build.
All djembe heads eventually split, and this is always a concern when buying a new instrument or having your old drum reheaded. The amount of tension on the skin of course plays a great part in this. We tune all our djembes, as well as the drums we rebuild for clients, to ready-to-play djembe accompaniment tightness and pitch. At this level of tension and tuning, we warranty the skins and our work as follows, in the event of breakage:
Custom Djembes and Rebuilds:
3 months: 100% of repair and materials cost. Customer pays all shipping costs.
3-6 months: 50% of repair and materials cost. Customer pays all shipping costs.
6 months-1 year: 25% of repair and materials cost. Customer pays all shipping costs.
If you choose to tune your drum higher, any warranty is at our sole discretion. Remember that slow tuning is much better for the life of your head: please pull only a few diamonds at a time and play the drum in a little bit each time to allow the skin to organically adjust before continuing the tuning process.
We will tune drums to Solo Djembe tension and pitch upon request, but as this massively increases the chance of the head splitting at a much faster rate, there is no warranty on these heads.
Student/Import Djembes
These drums tend to be built in Africa with rope, rings and skins of lesser quality, and then are subjected to container travel across the ocean, with fluctuations in temperature and humidity that are further deleterious to the skins. These instruments are more affordable, but they carry no warranty.