Lignum strikers?

[GuideGun]

Have any of the call makers on here made a striker out of genuine lignum vitae?  I know it's right up there on the Janka scale at about 4500.

[JLH]

I know a guy who'd getting some....give him a couple weeks and I'll have a better answer.

[Turkeytider]

Have any of the call makers on here made a striker out of genuine lignum vitae?  I know it's right up there on the Janka scale at about 4500.

Wood doesn`t get any harder, does it? Wonder if it`s possible for wood to be TOO hard for a striker? Dymondwood  and snakewood are as hard as I care to go.

[GuideGun]

I have both dymondwood and a snakewood striker.  Both are fantastic.  However I want to try something else as well.

Jeff,  let me know when you know something.  Just ordered a 3.5" wormy white and black ebony Sinclair titanium over glass.  Would be interesting to see how Lignum would do on it. 

[gergg]

My experience building a few myself is that the Genuine Lignum is too oily to grip good, will be curious to hear from others.

[R.W. Mackey]

  Have you tried Ipe, great sound and a very hard wood itself. Something to consider.

RW

[mmclain]

Too oily.

[vt35mag]

I have a stuckey lignum vitae, and it plays well on anodized aluminum. Its a heavy striker that's for sure.

[deerpoo22]

I know almost nothing of wood working but would soaking the wood in something perhaps acetone remove all the oil from it?

[mmclain]

Nope.  Been there done that