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Brian O'Connor inspects unfinished drumsticks and places them with similar sticks. They'll be paired for tone once finished. Staff photo by David Leaming
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Brian O'Connor inspects unfinished drumsticks and places them with similar sticks. They'll be paired for tone once finished.
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David Crocker, vice president of operations at the Vic Firth Co., holds drumsticks stamped with the company logo.
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It takes two pairs of hands to sew a cushion head to a bass beater at the Vic Firth Co.
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Angel Paul hand-sews mallet heads at the Vic Firth Company in Newport.
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Marcel Lamoureux on Oct. 1 drills holes into mallet heads, one of the percussion products made at the Vic Firth Company in Newport.
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Vic Firth Company employee Amanda Farmer sorts drumsticks during manufacturing at the Newport plant on Oct. 1.
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Stacks of dyed drumsticks are dried at the Vic Firth Company in Newport on Oct. 1.
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Vic Firth Co. employee Derrick Basford loads hickory into a grinder to turn them into drumsticks in Newport on Oct. 1.
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Vic Firth Co. employees at the Newport business work at different stations in the manufacturing process to transform hickory into drumsticks that are sold in 140 countries.
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Hickory dowels are stacked before being further shaped into drumsticks at the Vic Firth Company in Newport on Oct. 1.
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Staff photo by David Leaming Stacks of rough-cut hickory await the next step in manufacturing drumsticks as Vic Firth Co. workers cut and sort the wood.
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David Crocker, vice president of operations at the Vic Firth Co. in Newport, explains how much hickory shrinks after it is placed into the kiln at left.
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Drumsticks come off a conveyor belt into bins, where they are paired.
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Chris Vaughn inspects the plastic tip added to hickory drumsticks at the Vic Firth Company in Newport on Oct. 1. The tips help keep drum surfaces unmarked.