Another instant rock star kit! This is the shape that my reputation is built on and this is my favorite type of instrument to make. Higher backpressure giving easy responses to your slightest changes. The phat overblown note that I live for. Easy trumpets. Powerful solid sound. Probably my favorite of all the sticks I have on offer right now. Beautiful wood too. All these Maples I'm crafting with right now are from a friends place that got logged, the forester is a didj enthusiast and let me come on first and high grade the log decks for specific characteristics like knots and spalting, certain shapes, anything I wanted. What you're seeing in my crafting now is the result of these awesome finds. The same forester helped me find so much madrone before that really turned me on to the whole Art of The Fill. This is how all of community ends up being responsible for progressions in art and crafting, little gifts that create transformations.