Drumsticks are actually pretty easy to make, if you have a lathe. Unfortunately I don’t have a lathe. However, I did come up with a pretty good technique for turning drumstick shapes from blanks made from oak dowel.
Holding my hand flat, palm down on the dowel, I rolled it along the workbench with the dowel end hanging over the edge. Then I held a file against the dowel and applied pressure as it rolled along. Of course I had to stop and reset my hand position every 30 centimetres, but it worked. Little by little I could turn the dowel down to the shape I wanted.
After about nine hundred passes, and a rather sore hand, I had homemade drumsticks!
moogyver strikes again 