Find your pair by the numbers.

Vater

What drumsticks does David Griffiths use?

Independent · United Kingdom

The drumsticks David Griffiths plays

David Griffiths plays the Vater VHK5AW (⌀.571″×15.984″, hickory). The roster entry gives the band as Independent and the country as United Kingdom.

The sticks, spec by spec

Drawn to scale, with the figures each maker publishes.

Vater Official roster

Vater VHK5AW Keg 5A

Listed as their stick on Vater'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.571″ (14.5 mm)
Length15.984″ (406 mm)
Wood / materialHickory
Tip shapeBarrel
Tip materialWood
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.

BandIndependent
CountryUnited Kingdom
Listed byVater

Sticks similar to this one 6

Ranked by how close each one is to the Vater VHK5AW 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: Vater VHK5AW Keg 5A

Other drummers who play the same stick 8

Drummers the makers list as playing the same model as David Griffiths.

More drummers on Vater's roster

Other drummers on the same maker's artist pages.

← Browse the drummer directory ← Search drumsticks by the numbers