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Striker question

Started by bulian82, March 02, 2017, 10:27:14 AM

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bulian82

I am wanting to buy a couple of different strikers in different types of wood. I am curious what you would all recommend or what you carry into the woods. I know a lot depends on calls but just want to buy a few to see what I like.

Thanks Jon

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Bowguy

Dymondwood, tulipwood, snake wood

slwayne

I always have Steve Torman's (West Augusta on here) black locust and a Light's Out dymondwood in my vest.  I'll carry a few others as well depending on the weather and which pots are in my vest on any given day.  Really want to pick up a fiber striker from Yingling as well.

Jbird22

#3
That depends on the call surfaces really. For me, I consider Purpleheart to be my best all around striker. Dymondwood and Snakewood are right there with it. Also, Dogwood is a must for slate as well. I could keep naming good ones but those are all must-have IMO.

New Yorker

This is an absolute loaded question for a bunch of reasons. I've spent the last 2 years focused on field testing my strikers to come up with the best design that suits my calls specifically. Everything that I say here is just my own personal opinion based on what I have learned.
First, I generally choose the species of wood for my strikers based on the friction surface. For my calls, the softer the friction surface, the softer the wood for the striker. Slate is the softest so I can use anything like black walnut, hickory or purple heart. As you move up through ceramic, glass, crystal and the metals, I look for harder woods. You can Google the Janka hardness scale to see what the hardness levels of wood are.
The harder woods over 3000 on the Janka scale generally produce a deeper tone and van be played on any of the friction surfaces in my calls. They also take away the squeek that you may encounter.
Other important factors are the profile of the striker tip whether its a standard tip, mushroom tip and the precise degree of the tip. The thickness of the peg itself plays a vital role in the performance of the striker as well as the sound that it produces.
With all of that said, my Evolution striker in tulipwood could sound and play differently than a tulipwood striker from a different call maker.
I would suggest owning about a dozen different strikers, as many as you can from the same call maker for the sake of consistency. Some of my personal favorites are: black walnut, hickory, yellow heart, purple heart, wenge, Caribbean rose wood, black locust, pie and lignum vitae.

Ol Yelper

Get in touch with Matt McLain he can fix you up and his prices are reasonable. His Black Locust is hard to beat, Bubinga not far behind. But he can make you about anything.