Slate difference

[Seahunt]

What is the difference in calls made with red slate verses green slate verses gray slate.  Do each of the three sound different ?  I have always used gray slate but I keep seeing the others talked about.  Any difference???

[Braunschweiger]

There will be much more knowledgeable folk as well as answers than mine, but essentially each surface is a different hardness.


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[Bowguy]

There's quite a bit of difference imo but there's things can be done to make all surfaces change from pot type, soundboards, specs, etc
That being said I've never had a gray slate do what green slates do sound wise, they really pop. I was never a big slate guy. Green slate changed me.  Red slate seems super raspy but I'm limited there so take that into consideration.

[idgobble]

Gray slate is the softest, red is the hardest.  I started trying to get custom slate pot call makers to use red slate 25 years ago and they'd always tell me, "Red is too hard.". I'm from Vermont and my college friend's family had the only red slate quarry back then so I always wanted a call made from his slate. We've only started seeing red and green in the last few years. I've called gobblers with all three colors and it just seems to depend on what they want to hear that day.  I have a 2 sided red and gray pot for sale in Pot Call Classifieds.  Good deal with a Dead Silence call thrown in.  Only reason I'm selling is because I have 3 red/gray slate pots. http://oldgobbler.com/Forum/index.php/topic,99294.0.html

[Spitten and drummen]

Dont forget purple. All four of these slates have different pitches. I just got a purple from pat strawser. This thing sounds amazing. I like my green slate in cedar pot that I got from brad roberts , my red slate in persimmon from buster and my old reliably cody world champion gray. I would hunt them all equally and do not think there is a finer sounding combination that I mentioned.

[M,Yingling]

little something I did awhile back  to hear what each slate had pots are of same wood and dimensions inside  ,,, but as with any surface different woods and sound boards with change sound ,,,

sounds    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LLQ00p1N-g

[Beards and Hooks]

 

little something I did awhile back  to hear what each slate had pots are of same wood and dimensions inside  ,,, but as with any surface different woods and sound boards with change sound ,,,

sounds    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LLQ00p1N-g

Thank you Mike real neat to hear the differences, I really love slate pots easily my favorite surface.

[Greg Massey]

All these varieties of slate's have different hardness and sound different as to how they grab the strikers. Also let's not forget different combo's of wood effects the quality of sound.

[ChesterCopperpot]

little something I did awhile back  to hear what each slate had pots are of same wood and dimensions inside  ,,, but as with any surface different woods and sound boards with change sound ,,,

sounds    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LLQ00p1N-g

This is an incredibly helpful video, Mike. Thanks for making it.

[worth612000]

Thank you Mike 

[Tom007]

That sums it up, thanks Mike...

[sbbow]

little something I did awhile back  to hear what each slate had pots are of same wood and dimensions inside  ,,, but as with any surface different woods and sound boards with change sound ,,,

sounds    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LLQ00p1N-g

Thz Mike !


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