Conditioning call and striker

[ClayR089]

I've never put much thought in to my conditioning, but someone made a comment recently about making one pass in one direction with scotch Brite. Got me thinking. Is it that simple? Am I over conditioning? I'll do a few back and forth, typically. Then how do y'all best condition your striker?


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[mastevt]

On slate, Same as you.  Couple strokes.  On the striker tip, 120 grit sandpaper.  Typically a few more than the slate.  Keep it nice and rounded.   Glass, stone only.

I should add.  As thru the dust you leave.  Don't wipe it off

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[Greg Massey]

All you need to do is clean the area you have been playing the call , same on cleaning the striker tip, i NEVER use sandpaper on the tip of my strikers, just clean the end up with a few twist of it on a small piece of scotch brite , you could possibly ruin the tip of a striker by sandpapering the tip in my opinions, good strikers from good striker builders will play forever with just a few light pressure twists on a piece of scotch brite all your doing is cleaning the tip.

[wchadw]

For strikers I use a very low grit sandpaper and put a little square in the palm of my hand and press striker into it and give it a twist or two

All surfaces if they get dirty or oily I will wipe down with rubbing alcohol and let dry before conditioning. On aluminum this is all I normally do

For slates and ceramic I like red scotch brite. Rub back in forth a few strokes in same direction and lightly blow off excess

For glass I use plaster sanding screen same as what I do on slate


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[Crghss]

For strikers I use a very low grit sandpaper and put a little square in the palm of my hand and press striker into it and give it a twist or two

All surfaces if they get dirty or oily I will wipe down with rubbing alcohol and let dry before conditioning. On aluminum this is all I normally do

For slates and ceramic I like red scotch brite. Rub back in forth a few strokes in same direction and lightly blow off excess

For glass I use plaster sanding screen same as what I do on slate


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Pretty much spot on.

But I use red scotch Brit instead sandpaper for tip. Doing it in the palm is probably more important then material used.

I only scrub in one direction.

I use to use a stone for glass & Crystal but switched to drywall sanding screen. Gouges seem to deep for me, probably my technique.

[Lucky Goose]

Al Holford taught me that with aluminum you can get 4 pretty different tones by conditioning 4 different areas.  I've had turkey's show me they like it too.

I condition mine in quarters and have the back of the pot labeled so I don't forget what's where:

1. unconditioned
2. scotch brite
3. light sanding
4. piece of slate