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What drumsticks does Chris Paprota use?

Gnarbot · United States

The drumsticks Chris Paprota plays

Chris Paprota plays the Meinl SB106 (⌀.567″×16.260″, hickory). The roster entry gives the band as Gnarbot and the country as United States.

The sticks, spec by spec

Drawn to scale, with the figures each maker publishes.

Meinl Official roster

Meinl SB106 5A

Listed as their stick on Meinl's official roster

The drumstick silhouette is drawn to scale — length and diameter exactly as published — and the dotted lines mark every 100 mm from the butt end on the left.
Figures as published by the maker; inch values are converted back from mm.
Diameter.567″ (14.4 mm)
Length16.260″ (413 mm)
Wood / materialHickory
Tip shapeHybrid
Tip material
Taper
Weight≈49g est.

Where this comes from

All of it is what the maker's own site says. Endorsements and stick choices change, so this is not a guarantee that the drummer plays this model today.

Profile

Only what the makers publish, plus links the drummer runs themselves.

BandGnarbot
CountryUnited States
Listed byMeinl

Sticks similar to this one 6

Ranked by how close each one is to the Meinl SB106 in diameter, length, wood, tip and taper — the same calculation this site's “find sticks like this” uses. It does not mean the drummer plays any of them.

Reference: Meinl SB106 5A

Other drummers who play the same stick 12

Drummers the makers list as playing the same model as Chris Paprota.

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