best wood striker for slate and glass pot

[turkeystrut]

Guys,what is the best wood striker  that you wouldn;t  leave home with  out  for slate,glass ,crystal  pots ?

[captin_hook]

For me its hickory. It plays well for me on just about any surface. I always have a hickory with me. 2nd would be rosewood.

[Chris Downs]

hickory is a great all around striker, but i really like purpleheart for slate and glass/crystal calls.

[paboxcall]

Hickory is hard to beat, but rarely carry one.  I have a couple favorites for glass and slate, both whittled by hand.  The first is osage and the second is maple.  I wouldn't trade anything for those two strikers.

A very close third is walnut, I love the sound of purrs and clucks on a small slate with a walnut striker.

[Fatbeard]

I like snakewood and also hickory

[callmakerman]

Snakewood and diamond wood. They both seem to run very well on all surfaces.

[scoot12]

Purpleheart for glass and slate and also diamondwood for both,  a diamondwood will bring out the rasp more and the purpleheart a little cleaner sound.  Scoot

[Spurcollecta]

Dymondwood..

[longhorn]

I agree with Scoot but would add black locust.

[WillowRidgeCalls]

I wouldn't set foot into the woods without a Dymondwood, Purpleheart, Blk Locust, Olivewood and a Chechen. Those 5 will play on any surface in a pot call.

[lonnie sneed jr.]

For me, on my slates it always red wood in corn cob, and willow in a corn cob, and a two piece oak. Glass for me is two piece oak, oak in a corn cob, and hickory in a corn cob. Somehow I have hung onto my willow and red wood strikers over 30 years. Been lucky not to have lost at least one of them.

[West Augusta]

I prefer Black Locust for both.

[pauld]

Canarywood!

[BrowningGuy88]

Give me a hickory, rosewood, and purpleheart! I will take those three and any pot and make it run!

[Gold Spur]

If I had to pick only one, it would be hickory.