The sound quality of a wooden block depends first the maple quality, the orientation of grain and precise machining the slot. The obsessive attention paid by Black Swamp to these details is the reason the which their wooden blocks exceed others in sound quality and durability.
Black Swamp gets the maple from North America, where the grain is tight and perfect for making wooden blocks. These woodblocks have the grain perpendicularly oriented to the slot, which makes the snare drum resonance is extremely strong and consistent with sound.

• Rock Maple of tight grain
• The vertical grain sound plates increase the resistance and the projection
• Light tone with a sweet spot
• Lower non-slip surface

About Black Swamp
Black Swamp is an American brand that has been manufacturing in Michigan USA) instruments of symphony percussion since the end of the 20th century and which is now considered as one of the benchmarks for the manufacturing quality and innovation. 
His craftsmen are world-renowned.