Overview
With its new high-gloss “Brown Sugar Burst” finish, the Black Panther Walnut Series is more beautiful than ever — and it still enjoys the same rich and saturating sonic advantages that it has always had.
This is the later Deep Forest Walnut series, with a thicker shell (8.5mm vs 5.mm), Die Cast hoop and a different finish. With the exception of the 2009 UK Catalogue, it's listed as "Premium Walnut" rather than "Deep Forest", although there are examples with either badge. My personal theory is that they used their existing stock of the deprecated line's Deep Forest badges until they ran out, then switched to the Premium badges. They are the same snare though.
Note: You can see from the date sticker on the Deep Forest badged example below that it was built in December 2006. However, it would have been 2007 by the time it was available, so I'm sticking with that as the "Released into the Wild" date. Until I see an earlier example anyway!
Main photo courtesy of Warren Armstrong. Cheers Warren!
Photos of Deep Forest badged version courtesy of drummingmad971 from eBay - thanks for the photos!
Other photo courtesy of Jean Marc Pavani. Dziękuję Ci bardzo Jean Marc!
