[skinslapper]

Ladies and Gentlemen, step right up and I'll tell you of a revolutionary technique that'll stop the ever precious tips falling off your nylon headed drum sticks.

Like alot of you I've been suffering with this annoyance for quite a while now and it had gotten to the point where I had a lot of perfectly good sticks laying on my floor with a lot of perfectly good tips next them doing nothing at all.

So how have I fixed this I hear you ask? First I employed my previous fix it method of putting apoxy glue in the tip before ramming the stick back in there (This had only proven effective in certain cases but I figured better to be safe than sorry).

Then I drilled a hole only 1/16th wide at the base of the tip right through to other side. Then I took an ordinary, round tooth-pick, covered one end in glue, cut it in half using pliers and stuffed the pointy end into the hole. Grabbed a hammer and lightly tapped the tooth-pick until it had poked all the way through.

Finished up by cutting the ends down with the pliers, sanded them down flat, let the glue set overnight and hey presto good as new. No more waisting sticks for me.

I hope this has helped any of you other nylon beaters out there.