Guys,what is the best wood striker that you wouldn;t leave home with out for slate,glass ,crystal pots ? :thanks:
For me its hickory. It plays well for me on just about any surface. I always have a hickory with me. 2nd would be rosewood.
hickory is a great all around striker, but i really like purpleheart for slate and glass/crystal calls.
Hickory is hard to beat, but rarely carry one. I have a couple favorites for glass and slate, both whittled by hand. The first is osage and the second is maple. I wouldn't trade anything for those two strikers.
A very close third is walnut, I love the sound of purrs and clucks on a small slate with a walnut striker.
I like snakewood and also hickory
Snakewood and diamond wood. They both seem to run very well on all surfaces.
Purpleheart for glass and slate and also diamondwood for both, a diamondwood will bring out the rasp more and the purpleheart a little cleaner sound. Scoot
Dymondwood..
I agree with Scoot but would add black locust.
I wouldn't set foot into the woods without a Dymondwood, Purpleheart, Blk Locust, Olivewood and a Chechen. Those 5 will play on any surface in a pot call.
For me, on my slates it always red wood in corn cob, and willow in a corn cob, and a two piece oak. Glass for me is two piece oak, oak in a corn cob, and hickory in a corn cob. Somehow I have hung onto my willow and red wood strikers over 30 years. Been lucky not to have lost at least one of them.
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I prefer Black Locust for both.
Canarywood!
Give me a hickory, rosewood, and purpleheart! I will take those three and any pot and make it run!
If I had to pick only one, it would be hickory.
Hickory is like a 30-06. It ain't cool but it sure dose kill.
One of my favorites is bubinga then I would say Purple Heart or rosewood.
I like persimmon and dogwood for slate, hickory, cocobolo, and dymondwood for glass.
Hickory is the best all round then I would go with purpleheart or locust.
If I had to pick one it would be African Blackwood, hard tight grain, but any hard tight grain wood will function, each one will produce a different pitch.
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Black Locust.......
Snakewood, hickory, dymondwood
The one I have to carry is purpleheart, followed by dymondwood and persimmon.
I like bocote and tulipwood.
My absolute favorite strikers are the old laminate flare tip "Lightning Strike" series from Ted Peters. Both the birch and oak will take an average call and make it exceptional. I seldom carry them anymore because I'm terrified of losing them.
I have a few strikers made by Pete Peters and I agree, they are awesome. I also have several Dad's strikers made by Dewey Johnson and they are very similar in shape and size of the ones Pete made. They are equally good on about anything I put them on.
I don't go in the woods without a black locust striker.