One thing I have always wondered about is matching striker wood materials to different call surfaces to get optimum turkey sounds. I know the responses will likely vary a lot because of personal preferences, but it would be interesting to see if there may be some consistent agreement or trends.
Please let me hear from you guys on your preferred striker materials for the following surfaces:
Crystal
Glass
Gray Slate
Green Slate
Red Slate
Aluminum
Copper
Stainless Steel
Ceramic
Please add any I may have left out.
Thanks
GunRunner
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snakewood
Yelpaholic
You mean snakewood strikers for any and all call surfaces?
GunRunner
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Snakewood,dymondwood,tulipwood and either Ipe or Bloodwood. IMO those are the only strikers you need an that might be to many.
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Crystal / glass- hickory & jatoba
Grey & green slate- hickory & black locust
Aluminum- hickory & dymondwood
Copper- Osage & cedar
Ceramic- bloodwood & Osage
I could run hickory on all these and be happy. I don't have any experience with red slate and not enough with stainless to have an opinion.
Dymondwood and/or Frogwood on all surfaces.
I like black locust on slates
And dymondwood on everything else
Ironwood runs well on ceramics
I have a heavy hickory that came with Cody world class slate that has a weird squeak to it but I always use it with that call. Birds love it for some reason but it doesn't sound same on other slates
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At some point during a season, I'll run most everything on that list except crystal and ceramic. I carry maple, frogwood, cedar, and osage strikers. To pick one, it would be the maple I hand whittled.
Snakewood, and this depends on who made it and the old Rutland diamondwood...
I run a Rutland Dymondwood on everything.
Dymondwood on everything
Quote from: Snood Life on April 26, 2021, 11:02:31 PM
I run a Rutland Dymondwood on everything.
Amen! Rutland dymondwood on everything all day every day... Snakewood if I lost all my Rutland.
Pretty much the same for all surfaces for me...dymandwood, tulipwood, frogwood, and Macassar ebony. In no particular order.
My favorites are dymondwood, frogwood, Mac ebony, tulipwood, and hickory. Dymondwood and frogwood run good on everything. I like Mac ebony best on ceramic, tulipwood on crystal, and hickory on slate.
Grey / Black Slate - cedar , hickory , black locust
Red Slate - snakewood
Glass - Dymondwood , Snakewood
Those are the only surfaces that I typically run.
Crystal/glass - yellowheart, maccasar ebony, ipe, frogwood, dymondwood, snakewood
Gray/black slate - persimmon, pecan, hickory, black locust, frogwood
Green slate - ipe, yellowheart, dymondwood, maccasar ebony
Ceramic- ipe, dymondwood, snakewood, macassar ebony, hickory
Aluminum - hickory, dymondwood, tulipwood, snakewood, macassar ebony
Quote from: bobk on April 27, 2021, 05:37:35 PM
Grey / Black Slate - cedar , hickory , black locust
Red Slate - snakewood
Glass - Dymondwood , Snakewood
Those are the only surfaces that I typically run.
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Snakewood pairs well with red slates
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