Rank your favorite 3 strikers for your slate pots! Like many of you, I'm addicted to adding new spring music pieces to my vest, so I thought it would be interesting to hear what your favorites are. You can list the maker/ tip type if you have a preference. I'll start:
1) Purple Heart
2) hickory flare tip
3) heart pine flat tip
What say you?
Diamondwood and purpleheart are about the only 2 I run on slate calls. Scoot
For slate i like lacewood , rose wood , and persimmon. They are all harold fowler 2 piece strikers. All 3 tops are osage orange. Also they all have straight tips
Hickory, persimmon, then either red oak or dymondwood
Quote from: jblackburn on April 23, 2014, 03:14:32 AM
Hickory, persimmon, then either red oak or dymondwood
I'm glad that someone else likes a Red Oak striker.
Lights Out Dymondwood sounds great to me. Sounds good on all of my slates but really livened up my Snead Hot Hen call.
Purpleheart
Persimmon
Black Locust
Quote from: West Augusta on April 23, 2014, 08:00:46 AM
Quote from: jblackburn on April 23, 2014, 03:14:32 AM
Hickory, persimmon, then either red oak or dymondwood
I'm glad that someone else likes a Red Oak striker.
Me, too! I also like that red oak on glass. seems to "grab" really well
I carry 3
1) my go to striker is Diamondwood (one piece)
2) Bacote, topped off with ebony
3) Spectreply one piece
I'd have to say that right now my 3 favorites are
Black Locust
Dymondwood
Ipe
But that could change tomorrow.
Purpleheart
Hickory
Dymondwood
Hickory
Everything else is a distant second.
Quote from: West Augusta on April 23, 2014, 08:00:46 AM
Quote from: jblackburn on April 23, 2014, 03:14:32 AM
Hickory, persimmon, then either red oak or dymondwood
I'm glad that someone else likes a Red Oak striker.
Me too. I'm running a laminate oak woodhaven on my Sneed Hot Hen. I really like it on slate. I agree, It does grab nice on a glass or crystal surface also.
1. Woodhaven laminate oak
2. Halloran dymond wood
3. Purple Heart
Purple Heart
Diamond wood
Black locust
For a Slate call:
1: Black Locust, first pick on almost any surface
2: Osage, little deeper sound, lots of Turkey
2: Cedar, for a higher pitched call, sometimes works when nothing else will.
RW
All one piece, the first two below were hand whittled:
Osage
Maple
Black walnut
I also just recently picked up a dymondwood striker, two piece, that I'm liking a lot.