Made from premium North American hard maple and crafted in Germany, these sticks are built to the highest standards and with great attention to detail. Our Concert SD2 is a large maple stick that's light and easy to control with full dynamic range. Capable of working in all musical settings, its full 16" length and longer tapes gives this stick a quick rebound. The barrel tip produces woody stick definition with less mid-range overtones on cymbals than traditional round ball tip designs. 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.