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What drumsticks does Diego Maldonado use?

United States

The drumsticks Diego Maldonado plays

Diego Maldonado plays the Vater VSMPTRW (⌀.579″×15.984″, maple). The roster entry gives the country as United States.

The sticks, spec by spec

Drawn to scale, with the figures each maker publishes.

Vater Official roster

Vater VSMPTRW Sugar Maple Phat Ride

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.579″ (14.7 mm)
Length15.984″ (406 mm)
Wood / materialMaple
Tip shapeBall
Tip material
Taper
Weight≈43g 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.

CountryUnited States
Listed byVater

Sticks similar to this one 6

Ranked by how close each one is to the Vater VSMPTRW 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 VSMPTRW Sugar Maple Phat Ride

Other drummers who play the same stick 3

Drummers the makers list as playing the same model as Diego Maldonado.

More drummers on Vater's roster

Other drummers on the same maker's artist pages.

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