quantumeffect
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Vic Firth - 5A Wood Tips
are the sticks I play.
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Re: Vic Firth - 5A Wood Tips
2013/11/01 03:26:54
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Good to know!
I've got a pair of Vic's 2B's sitting next to a practice pad right now, however I prefer to use dipped sticks or they will occasionally fly out of my hand... Oh well.
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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The Maillard Reaction
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Re: Vic Firth - 5A Wood Tips
2013/11/01 06:44:28
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I started with 5A and always have them for guests to use.
I tried 8D a while ago and sort of liked them so that's what I've been using for the past couple years.
best regards,
mike
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Re: Vic Firth - 5A Wood Tips
2013/11/01 07:49:30
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I would make my own on but it wouldn't help.
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Re: Vic Firth - 5A Wood Tips
2013/11/01 08:57:55
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spacey
I would make my own on but it wouldn't help.
Maybe, but the cool factor would be off the charts! 
Time for all of you to head over to Beyond My DAW!
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Re: Vic Firth - 5A Wood Tips
2013/11/01 09:09:04
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LOL...
I was going to get a lathe and make Jonbuoy at set...he wisely declined.
My father-in-law made many things with his metal lathe. He was very good. Made miniature steam engines and all types of very cool things.
He got some timber that was removed from a mine shaft. I can't recall what type but it is the beams
down the side of the mine shaft that the "safety dogs" of the cage would dig into should the cage freefall.
He made my us two baseball bats from that wood that are as same diameter but only about 16-18" long.
He said they were Eskimo baseball bats....short days, short games...short bats.
No doubt they are very tuff headbangers.
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Re: Vic Firth - 5A Wood Tips
2013/11/01 09:29:46
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Regal 3A's and VF 5A's, and sometimes those bamboo sticks for very light playing.
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Re: Vic Firth - 5A Wood Tips
2013/11/01 09:40:09
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I like 5As. I grew up using 2Bs, but the 5As feel better to me now.
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Re: Vic Firth - 5A Wood Tips
2013/11/01 09:44:52
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I have my great grandfathers mahogany baton from when he walked a beat in NYC.
It's like a giant clave.
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Re: Vic Firth - 5A Wood Tips
2013/11/01 10:44:04
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quantumeffect
are the sticks I play.
So you can say that's your schtick of choice?
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quantumeffect
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Re: Vic Firth - 5A Wood Tips
2013/11/02 09:26:34
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spacey
LOL...
I was going to get a lathe and make Jonbuoy at set...he wisely declined.
My father-in-law made many things with his metal lathe. He was very good. Made miniature steam engines and all types of very cool things.
He got some timber that was removed from a mine shaft. I can't recall what type but it is the beams
down the side of the mine shaft that the "safety dogs" of the cage would dig into should the cage freefall.
He made my us two baseball bats from that wood that are as same diameter but only about 16-18" long.
He said they were Eskimo baseball bats....short days, short games...short bats.
No doubt they are very tuff headbangers.
Depending upon the type of wood used in the mine shaft supports ... It could have made a very cool snare drum in addition to sticks. Drum Workshop (DW) offered a snare drum several years ago called the "Dw Craviotto Timeless Timber". They used very old logs that had been recovered from Lake Superior. The logs came from 600 year old trees cut doun in the mid-1800's and then lost in the lake at that time (sorry, I don't mean to sound like an advertisement but I've always wanted one of those snares).
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Re: Vic Firth - 5A Wood Tips
2013/11/02 12:02:00
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I think he told me it was Karrie wood from Australia (not sure of spelling)
but I can't find information about that wood.
I know it is extremely hard/dense and I imagine drum sticks made with it
would be very hard to break.
Of course if I had a lathe I'd more than likely be turning for guitar volume knobs. :)
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Re: Vic Firth - 5A Wood Tips
2013/11/03 21:57:51
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ProMark Japanese Oak 5a's Nylon Tip. I like the clear and distinct "ping" and "clarity" I get with nylon tips after a few jam sessions.
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