Smith Mallets sells direct to you very high quality mallets at a super low price. Other name brand mallets sold through retail stores (Innovative Percussion, Vater, Vic Firth, Promark, Mike Balter etc..) are so expensive because they have been marked up 2 to 3 times by the time you purchase them. We rely on word-of-mouth advertising and have low overhead costs. Smith Mallets uses premium materials and our quality is excellent.  Robb Smith is directly accessible for questions (smithmallets@hotmail.com) and happy to work with you on custom orders.