Yeah, I was surprised to hear the news. I know they are coming out with the Catalina in ash, and I would have thought that it would give multiple options for potential buyers. My guess is that market reasearch showed that maple was selling better than birch, at the moment, and that there was a market for ash. Maybe, in order to produce the ash sets, they had to dedicate a factory to the ash, and if they only had 2 factories producing drums in Asia, they had to decide whether to drop the birch, or the maple.
How's that for a load of speculation?!!
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