| I quite like it when the tip chips slightly, like a tiny bit will fall out of one side. Makes things interesting when playing ridiculously quietly - you can get a soft, damp response from the ride by striking with the chipped part, then a nice focused ping simply by rotating the stick really gently. I like to mess around with that sort of thing, and it's interesting because there's no way of telling when it's going to happen. Unless you start with a chipped stick (which I often do) or make a custom tip with some sandpaper.
(That's my idea for a stick design..... don't think it'll catch on but it's another thing I should copyright straight away, along with salt and pepper flavoured cutlery.) | 
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