Johnny K
Very well Known Member
Did they change the tip design or did I really wear them out so badly that it's too hard to tell?
Cool. I have a 3rd pair that has dissappeared to check against. The new ones are about 2 weeks old. The ones on the right have gotten alot of use and abuse. I use Jack DeJohnette sticks too and those tips dont really sharpen, but they do get cracked and chuncks of the tips go missing. I really wish VF would do both Buddy and Jack sticks in a natural finish. I am slowly painting my hi-hats white.I used to wonder the same about another model. This happens when you play a lot but at a softer volume; the coating on the heads as well as some cymbal finishes tend to sand off wood over time. Any stick tip will get pointier that way.
Some models offer this shape from the start, but I think the Buddy model always had the tip shown to the left, with not much of a narrowing toward the neck.
I've used white Firths often and never had that problem. As an aside, that Buddy stick is a lot of weight and I only use them for pad work. Are you hitting hard ?Cool. I have a 3rd pair that has dissappeared to check against. The new ones are about 2 weeks old. The ones on the right have gotten alot of use and abuse. I use Jack DeJohnette sticks too and those tips dont really sharpen, but they do get cracked and chuncks of the tips go missing. I really wish VF would do both Buddy and Jack sticks in a natural finish. I am slowly painting my hi-hats white.
Not terribly hard. In the beginning I was having a hard time finding a stick i could feel comfortable with and my instructor handed me a pair of Buddys and it was instant love. Then I found the Jack D's and loved them too, because of they are the same length and diameter (probably 5b-ish) and weight as the Buddys, but with a more tradional acorn tip. Good stick for hitting hard on the blues like Tony Coleman. Both sticks sound good on the coated Remo coated pinstripe heads and Zildjian K's. I also have pretty large hands and long fingers so it's just a comfort thing with those 2 sticks. If I want to play lightly I have a set of Bopworks Art Blakey 8d sticks. I like to play 2b sticks on my pad. I even have a set of FS1 sticks that are like baseball bats compared the the 8d sticks.I've used white Firths often and never had that problem. As an aside, that Buddy stick is a lot of weight and I only use them for pad work. Are you hitting hard ?
I know right? The Bopworks 40's Swing Classic model stick looks closer to what he probably used. Dont really care though, they could say anything on them and I would still play them.Of course, these are nothing like the sticks Buddy actually used.
Never. The sticks he played were much closer to a thin 5a or even a 7a.I've only seen them new and they've always looked like the first picture (left). Those tips look awful to me and I don't know how they would play but I guess they worked for BR.
Not far off the Ludwig 7As I had Leroy crack off at the same time as those knitting needle Rogers! Those Ludwig's were .500 roughly (there was some changes with the thousandths). The Buddy's are a bit longer I think.These are my Slingerland Buddy Rich green stamp sticks that I bought out of a bin in a drum shop that was closing in the last 5 years or so. The price that I paid is on the bag. Yes, the bag is opened, and one stick has a very few rimshot dents. Still, for the price...
15 13/16 long
30 grams each
.312 bead
.215 neck
.507 grip
.515 butt
It’s been a while since I used my micrometer. Do these measurements sound right?