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I like Purpleheart on most all surfaces, nothing fancy or expensive just a not picky striker wood.Sent from my Pixel 2 using Tapatalk
My top 3 in each, in no particular order, and a few honorable mentions I feel are an underrated striker material. All Surface - Snakewood, African Blackwood, Amazon RosewoodSlate - Sarvis (Servicebery), Hickory, Jatoba Glass - Macassar Ebony, Tulipwood, KataloxAnodized or Slick Metal(s) - Kwila, Wenge, and GranadilloPowdered or Raw Metal(s) - Massaranduba (Bulletwood), Purpleheart, Ceramic - Bloodwood, Ipe, Persimmon Honorable Mentions: Canarywood, Ash, Yellowheart, Osage
I have a lot of strikers but have found that snakewood, hickory, yellowheart and purpleheart are all I need to carry.
I sat down and ran all my strikers across all of my pots. One by one, trying not to run on the same spot unless conditioned. What I discovered was that the solid, natural wood strikers typically performed more consistently than the laminates, and I have some nice laminates.Top performers were snakewood, tulipwood, bloodwood, ebony, and hickory. The rosewood works well too. The yellowheart is a little odd and seems best for soft calling IMO. I tested across, slate, green slate, crystal, and stoned aluminum. I have a hard time pairing one to a particular surface because most combos sound good, just a little different from one another. I had been packing mostly solid wood strikers as they seemed to be the most consistent, but until I tested them it was just intuition and experience.
Snakewood seems to work well for me on several different calls. Recently got a tulipwood and had a Durham ceramic sitting on the table and that pot loved that strtiker
Snake wood and Mac Ebony work the best on my calls. I do see that Mac Ebony is really good on glass. Snake wood seems to play on everything.....
Clay Townsend , persimmon top, snakewood striker , it will play on anything ...
Quote from: Greg Massey on April 10, 2020, 06:02:38 PMClay Townsend , persimmon top, snakewood striker , it will play on anything ...I have 8 of his strikers including the one you mentioned as well as a snakewood with osage top. I have ran about any striker from most of the better known makers and I noticed that Clays strikers sound good on about anything you put them on. Most of the time I run a striker on several calls to figure out what I need to run them with. As far as versatility , I find Clays more consistent on more surfaces. Just my experience. That being said , I favor his bloodwood with persimmon top. It runs on everything from gray slate to Aluminum and everything in between. Again , thats with my playing style and my ear judging it.