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Title: broke after 30 minutes of practice
Review: My son hasn't broken a drum stick in his two years of playing (sure, he's splintered some and otherwise worn out sticks), but when he got these Sugar Maple sticks, one of the sticks broke clean off on a diagonal starting at the nylon tip after the first 30 minutes of practice.These are his first set of maple sticks (the sticks he normally uses are hickory) and I've read that maple isn't as durable as hickory, but 30 minutes???Given the clean diagonal break, I'm thinking the grain on this particular stick was not quite straight along the length of the stick and thereby it was especially weak. Or maybe this is a general issue that explains the super low sale price when I ordered them.
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