Never had a stick break like this before :-)

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DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 39d (1 reply)

Is it not real wood? It might be resin, colored to look like wood. You could try burning it to see if it burns like wood, or plastic.

wildflower@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 39d

It burns like wood, likely just a fluke

one_old_coder@piefed.social · 9 pts · 39d (3 replies)

Are you playing in a black metal band? That would be an explanation :p

wildflower@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 39d (2 replies)

Just Foo fighters "Pretender" :-)

swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 23 pts · 39d (1 reply)

I guess you could say this stick was not like the others

foiledAgain@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 38d

My hero

AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 39d (8 replies)

It's plastic or a composite, it looks like just plastic though. Since there is no real grain, it did not splinter as wood would.

wildflower@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 39d (6 replies)

It should be Japanese oak, I suspect it's just a fluke, it's a brand new stick and the other pairs I bought seam fine.

AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 39d

Looking hat the TAMA site it does seem like it should just be oak, so just a fluke I guess. I thought maybe they pressure/heat treated the wood to harden it but there is no mention of that. I also looked to see if maybe they where resin infused but no mention of that either. ¯\(ツ)

BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 38d (3 replies)

It does look like oak, does it taste like oak? Asking for a friend

AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 36d (1 reply)

Hey, are you that beaver that got banned from the woodworking community?

BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 36d

What? Me? No, I am a human with ordinary human interests, like dam building and identifying wood by taste, smell, and mouth feel. I even have a ordinary human name... My name is Jack... Jack McHumanface.

Say, you wouldn't happen to have some light poplar or spruce to nipple on? if we're going to be having an inquisition here I'd like to steady my nerves.

wildflower@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 38d

Not quite sure what oak tastes like :-)

Buffalox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 39d

Having seen the wood wear near the tip, it seems to me very much like wood. Although not like sticks made of hickory that cracks way more.
Also it does NOT look like resin IMO, resin does not break in a pattern like that. It seem to me to clearly be a fiber material.

Buffalox@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 39d

Wildflower posted this image earlier, another TAMA stick but made of the same kind of Japanese Oak wood.

TAMA is the one on the left, It does not look like plastic to me.

Drusas@fedia.io · 3 pts · 38d (1 reply)

Did you make a wish?

wildflower@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 38d

Yes... still no mail from Tony Levin asking to join the band thou.