[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.

[shazaam]

yamaha nylon tips have liek a screw in tip and glued...they were nice, till I broke all of em Now I just glue good tips back onto good sticks and call it a day. The tip on most cases lasts longer than the stick does so yea.

[skinslapper]

I'm on pro-mark sticks, but even after I glued the tips back on, it would only be a matter of hours before they came off. But not anymore baby!!!!!!!

[slingerland]

Hey Skinslapper I have been playing 42 years and the stick tip problem that you have has never happened to me and I use nylon tips. Did you ever use sticks made by Regal Tip
I use Regal Tip Jazz why not try Regal drum sticks you may just like them.
GOOD LUCK SLINGERLAND

[Damo]

I fixed the problem about 15 years ago by switching to wood tips

[Harry]

Hi Damo,

BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good on you!

Cheers and Happy Drumming,

Harry.

[UPSTROKE]

SLAPPER;
Incredibly effective & beautifully simple. THANKYOU!!! All of us may now pick up all of those cheaply built d*mn drumsticks & put them back to work.

[Infero Exicution]

I broke my first pair of sticks recently.
They where nylon tips too!
But, It wasn't just the tips that broke off, it was also the whole front half of the stick.
Oh well, I'll get new ones soon.

[Lukeykookey]

Originally Posted by UPSTROKE

SLAPPER;
Incredibly effective & beautifully simple. THANKYOU!!! All of us may now pick up all of those cheaply built d*mn drumsticks & put them back to work.

Yeah agree. Although I can see it being a bit elaborate, if it works, it works!
Did you have to clamp it in a vice or anything?

Although I think you may find that if you use the right KIND of glue it isn't a problem...

A lot of people use superglue or wood glues, they are just not designed for constant impact and movement. I have had good results with a contact type adhesive, one that stays flexible over time.

The one I have used is an evo-stick contact adhesive, semi-expensive in the glue world but I've had them fall off originally about 6 months ago, glued them, continual daily use has not seen thgem fall off again. I can 'move' the tips by about 1/2 a mm, and they get pulle dback, which tells me that the glue is still rubberised and so seems to cope with the impact.

[skinslapper]

Actually even this method didn't prove successful in the long run. Gave up on promark nylons altogether. Now playing Vic firth 3a woods.