I've never put much thought in to my conditioning, but someone made a comment recently about making one pass in one direction with scotch Brite. Got me thinking. Is it that simple? Am I over conditioning? I'll do a few back and forth, typically. Then how do y'all best condition your striker?
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On slate, Same as you. Couple strokes. On the striker tip, 120 grit sandpaper. Typically a few more than the slate. Keep it nice and rounded. Glass, stone only.
I should add. As thru the dust you leave. Don't wipe it off
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All you need to do is clean the area you have been playing the call , same on cleaning the striker tip, i NEVER use sandpaper on the tip of my strikers, just clean the end up with a few twist of it on a small piece of scotch brite , you could possibly ruin the tip of a striker by sandpapering the tip in my opinions, good strikers from good striker builders will play forever with just a few light pressure twists on a piece of scotch brite all your doing is cleaning the tip.
For strikers I use a very low grit sandpaper and put a little square in the palm of my hand and press striker into it and give it a twist or two
All surfaces if they get dirty or oily I will wipe down with rubbing alcohol and let dry before conditioning. On aluminum this is all I normally do
For slates and ceramic I like red scotch brite. Rub back in forth a few strokes in same direction and lightly blow off excess
For glass I use plaster sanding screen same as what I do on slate
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Quote from: wchadw on January 15, 2022, 11:17:04 AM
For strikers I use a very low grit sandpaper and put a little square in the palm of my hand and press striker into it and give it a twist or two
All surfaces if they get dirty or oily I will wipe down with rubbing alcohol and let dry before conditioning. On aluminum this is all I normally do
For slates and ceramic I like red scotch brite. Rub back in forth a few strokes in same direction and lightly blow off excess
For glass I use plaster sanding screen same as what I do on slate
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Pretty much spot on.
But I use red scotch Brit instead sandpaper for tip. Doing it in the palm is probably more important then material used.
I only scrub in one direction.
I use to use a stone for glass & Crystal but switched to drywall sanding screen. Gouges seem to deep for me, probably my technique.
Al Holford taught me that with aluminum you can get 4 pretty different tones by conditioning 4 different areas. I've had turkey's show me they like it too.
I condition mine in quarters and have the back of the pot labeled so I don't forget what's where:
1. unconditioned
2. scotch brite
3. light sanding
4. piece of slate