Made from premium United States hickory and crafted in Germany, these sticks are built to the highest standards and with great attention to detail. With a nod to a time when music called for a little more nuance, this fast playing, thin stick is easy to get a big, bright and wide-open sound from to push any band all night. The Big Apple Bop 7A features an oversized acorn tip that delivers full tonality on drums and woody stick definition on cymbals. The largest style in our catalog, this oversize acorn shape wood tip is perfectly coupled with this model drumstick for those who prefer a thinner stick but still want full volume and tone from their cymbals. An extra-long taper generates a quick rebound for fast bop style cymbal patterns as well as soloing. Have you found your favorite sticks to be too light or too heavy when buying a new pair? Our sticks are made with a new step: weigh and sort the raw wooden dowels into designated models before manufacturing. Lighter dowels are reserved for our 7A sticks, while heavy, dense dowels are used for models like our Heavy 2B. We know drummers demand consistency in their sticks, which is why we developed this step to ensure a very narrow weight range and density for each model. Whenever you pick up your favorite pair, they will always feel the same. Finally, every pair is weight and pitched matched.