Do you have a favorite Purr Striker? If so what wood, and do you like flare tip, straight tip or whatever?
I'm still searching for that favorite striker, but my search will honestly probably never end. I purr more consistently with straight tip strikers (Fowler), but on a freshly/well conditioned pot my JLH flare tip strikers purr and cluck like champs. The harder/denser woods seem to purr better for me.
Imo it's more about holding high up enough more than a favorite wood type for purrs. Whatever type is in my hand but that likely be a straight tip
I have a Stuckey striker made of Holly that makes a really nice purr
I make cluck a purr strikers. The best ones for that dead soft purr and cluck tend to be the softer woods on a purr pot or on a pot built from cedar or sassafras I've heard a China berry call is very good too.
I have a straight tip plum striker I really like for purrs and clucks
I have a JHL heavy cedar that is outstanding for purrs and clucks.
Depends on what you want a purr to sound like , there are soft purrs usually made with softer wood Cedar,mahogany ,birch will make feeding or contented or even saw something that didn't look right purrs. Purrs you do on a box call ,a glass call or hard slate to me would be a fighting purr all together different. I like to use a piece of gray slate like Rodger parks tree talker or a purr pot of some type with grey slate. People who are good with a mouth call can really sound good. To answer the question originally asked before I started rambling I use a cedar Striker most of the time.
Burnt tip hickory. The fire hardened tip really bites and skitters on a slate surface.
JLH heavy cedar or blue mahoe
Quote from: Spitten and drummen on February 22, 2022, 02:16:16 PM
I have a JHL heavy cedar that is outstanding for purrs and clucks.
:agreed:
I lost a walnut striker from Tuscarora Legend years ago that was best to my ear for purrs, soft content talk. But the JHL heavy cedar does all that but better.
JLH heavy cedar or heavy hickory works well for me....