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Started by sbbow, February 16, 2016, 07:14:48 AM

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sbbow

What strikers do you all like on the surface?


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mastevt

In my opinion, acrylic runs the best.  Also, it will run wet.

Spitten and drummen

personally I like yellowheart. picked up a wenge and cocabola striker in Nashville that sounds very good on a couple of my ceramics. however they sound terrible on my others. I like to take a pot when looking for a striker and try dozens on it , until I find a couple that sound like what im looking for. if I cant , I try some until I do. I know that most times this is not feasible. at the convention this year , I brought a couple of pots with me and eventually found some strikers that really turned my ok pots into some awesome pots. sorry for the long reply. generally I have found yellowheart to sound the best on average on ceramic.
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870BkWht

I like dymondwood but those are getting hard to come by. I also like yellowheart, Osage, and bubinga

mote1977

Ipe and dymondwood are my favorites.

TKE921

I have a Lyman Dymondwood striker that will make my ceramic call absolutely scream. It runs well on the surface as long as I have it scuffed with either a fine grit sandpaper or a stone.  Without those it seems to slip a bit. I just asked him to recommend a striker or two to use to mellow the call out and give me a more smooth soft sound.  He recommended Mahogany and Cedar.  He included the caveat that both woods were very "grippy" on ceramic and metal surfaces.

Smooth_Operator

My favorite on ceramic has always been Dymondwood...

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mudhen

Yep, laminate...I use Lights Out...


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Swather

Yellowheart and bloodwood are the ones I found to work best.  Laminate is good as well.  I started off thinking a softer wood might be better, but it was not.