What is your favorite striker for pot calls or slate ?..What kind of wood do you like the most in a striker do you like a round tip or a flare tip?
The dymondwood gobblstix striker that Neal on this forum makes if I had to pick just one.
Harold Fowler makes a dandy persimmon I like to run on slate as well.
Slate: Cedar (thanks to dirt road ninja) and hickory
Glass/Crystal: yellow heart, Purpleheart, bubinga, and monkey wood
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The best way to pick a new striker is to carry the call with you!!
Mine would be Dymondwood or a laminated striker. Either one will play extremely well on slate or glass/crystal. Hickory would be a close second.
Hickory and Purpleheart.
I use 3 woods more than any and I use them all about the same.
bubinga
Yellow heart
Cedar
To pick one?????? Cedar is hands down the best for softer calling while keeping rasp. Yellow heart is better loud. Bubinga plays on any surface well, it's similar to Monkey wood IMO.
I like hickory on slate, tulipwood and Snakewood on glass., the straighter the tip the better, I don't like em flared or rounded. More like beveled n change tips to suit me
Dymondwood
Purple heart
Mesquite
My absolute favorites are the laminated birch and oak that Ted Peters made back in the late 90s and early 2000s. I'm afraid to take them in the woods anymore for fear of losing them. Lately I've been using two piece strikers for the most part. Diamondwood and tulipwood, regardless of surface. For waterproof strikers, the absolute best one I've found is made by Dustin Jones. It runs soaking wet and sounds incredible!
Cheap Woodhaven purpleheart. I have a drawer full of strikers but always come back to that one. Go figure.
Always have purple heart, rosewood and hickory two piece strikers on me. Then a Knight & Hale power tip and one of my own corncob three piece strikers. Wasn't a huge dymond wood fan before but picked up a Hooks dymond wood gobblestix from a member here and agree w earlier comments. It will find a place in the vest, as will the Parks tree talker. The thing is I have a couple more in the mail coming my way so this may change soon! This is a nice site alright, but you forgot to tell me about this dangerous addiction. I confessed this to my wife tonight and she said, and I quote: "Better than guns." Thank you Lord, I love this woman! :thanks:
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my favorite is an old hickory striker that came with either a Butski or Pittman glass call i got prob 20 years ago, still my go to striker, awesome on slate or ceramic for close up work
Honduras rosewood!!
depending on the call but i really like a purple heart and hickory stiker. I also like a laminated striker as well.
Lightsout dymondwood is my favorite.
Snakewood hands down!
Cherry and Padauk are two that I always keep in my vest, made by me of course.
Steve
Quote from: Devastator on January 31, 2016, 09:57:56 PM
Lightsout dymondwood is my favorite.
X2. Right along with his cedar striker for the softer stuff.
cedar
Thanks for all the help guys.. i order a dymondwood gobblstick from Hook's calls and i pickup a cider striker and i already have a maple and hickory...
My favorite is a dymondwood flare tip on a glass pot.
Got my dymondwood striker today...i really like the it...been running it on some slate and glass calls today..If you need a dymondwood striker order it from Hook's custom calls...Gobble Stix
I got a couple of strikers from Steve, aka 'West Augusta" on here. The dymondwood which is great on glass and titanium, and my hands-down favorite Black Locust for slate (sounds great on all my calls, really). If I left the house without that Black Locust striker...I'd turn around and go back and get it! Lol
purpleheart