What is your favorite type of striker (generally or specifically) for using on plain slate?
I have been using the primos triple 7 striker for several years, and want to see about getting something a little better.
It hards to be a good hickory or purpleheart stick, but I also like dogwood, persminnon and black locust. I have an apitung striker on the way from Harold Fowler. He told me it sounded good on slate.
My slate loves cherry.
The sound a given striker produces on a given surface will be different on pots made by different callmakers. I had to read that twice to make sure I understood what I just said...
That said, recommendations are generalizations based on the experience of the contributor.
I like osage, pecan (very similar to hickory), persimmon, padauk, canarywood, bubinga, rosewood, tulipwood, bocote... There are lots of good sounding woods for strikers on slate.
Hard to beat soft purrs on slate.
I like walnut and osage personally.
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One of the 5-6 I carry all the time :)
I honestly don't have a favorite striker, they all sound different, especially with slate, so I own just a few strikers.
But given all the possible weather conditions, I like to have a laminated striker with me at all times....
mudhen
If I plan on running a slate call in the woods, I'll have a dymonwood, a purpleheart, and a hard maple.
My favorite strikers on a slate surface are persimmon, dogwood, and wild plum.
My absolute favorite striker is an old Lightning Strike made by Ted Peters. I have both the birch and the oak, I prefer the birch.
I made a lacewood for a guy that was here the other day for his slate call and he wanted 5 more of them to go with the other slates he ordered. We both liked it. I've always been a fan of wenge, canarywood and paduak.
Hickory, red oak, and persimmon
Tough to beat hickory on slate. Blood wood is a close second.
Quote from: savduck on March 07, 2013, 10:29:31 PM
Tough to beat hickory on slate. Blood wood is a close second.
I'm a hickory type of guy on just about any playing surface.
If forced to choose one striker for slate it would be hickory.
My favorite is a Hickory with a flared tip
hickory if forced to choose just one
My fav for slates is Carps goose bone striker.