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What drumsticks does Curly Smith use?

Boston

The drumsticks Curly Smith plays

VaterVH2BW⌀.634″×16.260″Official roster

Curly Smith plays the Vater VH2BW (⌀.634″×16.260″, hickory). The roster entry gives the band as Boston.

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Drawn to scale, with the figures each maker publishes.

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Vater Official roster

Vater VH2BW 2B Wood

Listed as their stick on Vater's official roster

The drumstick silhouette is drawn to scale — length and diameter exactly as published — and the dotted lines mark every 100 mm from the butt end on the left.

Figures as published by the maker; inch values are converted back from mm.
Diameter	.634″ (16.1 mm)
Length	16.260″ (413 mm)
Wood / material	Hickory
Tip shape	Oval
Tip material	Wood
Taper	—
Weight	≈61g est.

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Where this comes from

Listed on Vater's official artist page (retrieved 2026-08-25)Source page ↗

All of it is what the maker's own site says. Endorsements and stick choices change, so this is not a guarantee that the drummer plays this model today.

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Band	Boston
Listed by	Vater

Sticks similar to this one 6

Ranked by how close each one is to the Vater VH2BW in diameter, length, wood, tip and taper — the same calculation this site's “find sticks like this” uses. It does not mean the drummer plays any of them.

VaterVH2BN⌀.634″×16.260″VaterVHC2BN⌀.630″×16.260″PromarkTX2BXN⌀.634″×16.142″Rimshot PH2B⌀.630″×16.299″WincentW-THS⌀.638″×16.378″Salyers PercussionPCS2⌀.630″×16.142″

Reference: Vater VH2BW 2B Wood

Other drummers who play the same stick 12

Drummers the makers list as playing the same model as Curly Smith.

Amir ZivDROID / ORNETTE COLMAN / SOUND CHEMISTRY RECORDS Cameron McGlincheyRogue Traders / Independent Christina VitucciCilver Danny WhiteASKA Dennis MerrickEarth Crisis Devin Lebsack(hed)p.e.Ernst Van EeIndependent Ethan KinnunenIndependent Felix EwertNik & Jay Florian MusilTheotoxin Jan ZimmerLuxuslärm Jarred PopeTom Keifer

More drummers on Vater's roster

Other drummers on the same maker's artist pages.

Curt BisqueraIndependent / Sarah McLachlan / Sir Elton John Cyrus BolookiNew Found Glory Daiana AzarThe Last Dinner Party / Make Mama Proud / Independent Damian CorniolaTechtonik Dan AndreeIndependent / Educator Dan DugginsThe Queen Killing Kings, Zigmat Dan LamagnaAgnostic Front / Suicide City Dan MaloneyIndependent / Educator

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