mixed info about rosewood sticks

UBP · Posted: Sun Jan 07, 2007 12:17 am Post subject: mixed info about rosewood sticks

hey guys I hafta get something straight....

rosewood drum sticks, right?

I thought I read that they were heavy and durable.... but then this guy at the music store told me hickory was more durable than them?

so I just wanna know is rosewood heavy and how durable is it?

sorry for the nooby threads

thanks
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bytor · Admin Joined: 12 Aug 2003 Posts: 5223 Location: Kansas

I don't think I've ever seen rosewood drumsticks.

drumonster · Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 6:46 am Post subject:

Rosewood sticks are much heavier than Hickory. The specific weight of Hickory is 0.73 while Rosewood is 1.03.
I work with Cocobolo (a kind of rosewood) and also made sticks out of it, but the salesman was right, Hickory is more durable, because the rosewood is so hard ,it does not flex that much compare to hickory, so it breaks easier.
But, due to the hardness of rosewood the sound on the cymbals is incredible.
I tried a lot of different woods as sticks, like Cocobolo , Bubinga, Walnut, Maple, Purpleheart, and of course Hickory, and in the end I ended up playing good old Hickory again, due to price and durability.

steveweissmusic · Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 8:50 am Post subject:

In my opinion, rosewood sticks shouldn't be used for anything but concert snare drum playing. For the price, it just doesn't make sense to use them for anything else.
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