very good grip, also the length of the handle, great weight for longer playing. exactly 166 g total and the head 138 g. unfortunately as someone already wrote with another size of thommann mallet, there is one sharp point near the edge of head, that you can't see under the fleece and you never want to hit it on the gong. probably a mistake in the production of the core, insufficiently covered with fleece. This is a bit of a letdown from an otherwise good mallet.