LaBB Report — LA BackBeat LABB Report

Alas, my attempts to avoid a wood shortage have... well... fallen short. I have tried to keep ahead of this, however, I am at the mercy of my suppliers and I do not want to make an inferior product than the one we have all come to enjoy. Rest assured, I am not sitting around twiddling my thumbs. I am actually utilizing the wait time to do some upgrades to the finishing side of stick making, along with some machine maintenance. The past few days I have been making yet another sander revision and the coming week will see development...

For those that do not know and have not considered the processes that go into making a drumstick, I wanted to share a bullet list of the process in the one man, one machine (lathe) shop. These processes are what makes it difficult to make very small batches of a drumstick and limit the ability for "one off" custom product. Find a wood distributor select boards for grain structure and minimum imperfections load, transport lumber and unload lumber at shop cut boards down to rough stock length- called "books" (while inspecting yet again) stack boards to acclimate MC (moisture content)...