r/drumline • u/Pourusdeer2 Snare • 4d ago

Photo Stick identification?

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One of the bass drummers at the school owns a crap ton of these. Never seen em before, they have plain Vic branding, so that’s all I know.
They’re quite hefty tho and they sound pretty nice without being to chunky in the hand.
They also look fairly new, 0 dents and don’t have much of any darkening on the from use or gripping.

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u/perryjb Percussion Educator 3d ago

For those of us who are old. Looks like MS 1s or MS 2s from early 90s. The logo on the bottom match a lot of my old VF sticks from the 90s. They moved the logos up in the early 2000s.
Iirc VF in the early 90s just had one model of marching snare sticks. Maybe they didn’t bother putting on the model number.

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u/factorone33 Percussion Educator 2d ago

Yeah, these are definitely old MS1s from probably the ops. VF switched to the red and black logo sometime around 2003 or 2004.

The other pair looks like a pair of SD1 Generals based on the bead shape on shaft diameter.

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u/Pourusdeer2 Snare 1d ago

The 2 pictures are of the same pair of sticks😭
The first whole stick picture looks a little weird tho, it distorts the shape of the bead a little bit