How much time does it take you to turn a striker

[selinoid44]

People are always asking me how much time I have in turning a call or strikers. Today somebody asked me that and I said "heck I dont know Im just having fun". So tonight I thought that I would check from the time I turned the switch on and started turning to parting it off the lathe. I had 20 minutes in it. Thats the first time Ive checked time. Whats the average time you spend turning a striker?

[Gobblerstopper]

About the same or a little quicker with some woods and a sharp cutter. For a while I was able to do them in 11.

[Basser69]

Charlie, I am like you...Never timed myself eith but I would guess 15-20 min also

[turkey buster]

Charlie how much for a handmade slate and stricker?

[pappy]

I turn out a striker in less the ten minutes from start to finish. But.........I have made hundreds of them........

[turkin8or]

One-piece strikers are the best buy in the business. I think it takes me as long to turn a striker as a call sometimes-

[dreis3]

One-piece strikers are the best buy in the business. I think it takes me as long to turn a striker as a call sometimes-

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[Steve]

Dang...I'm slow. It takes me 30 -45 minutes for a striker from cutting the blank to the time it comes off the lathe...that includes finish time too though.

Steve

[lightsoutcalls]

12-20 minutes depending on the wood.  Some woods sand better than others (easier to get the sanding scratches out).  Dymondwood strikers run about 20 minutes.  Cedar strikers closer to 12 minutes. 

[stone road turkey calls]

three hours, get up get some coffee, go out look at the deer at the feeder, go look at the garden see how much the deer and rabbits have eaten, go back in get more coffe and watch the news, log on to the OG for awhile, go out to shop with coffe, look at striker blanks, pick whate i am going to make, go back in and get some breakfast, go back out and make a striker.

[misfire]

10 minutes, start to finish. I actually timed myself because I hate making them. Wanted to know how much time I was wasting on them

[Swamp]

Timed myself yesterday. Very basic design using hickory and not the sharpest tools in the world but still finished a hair under 20 mins.

[pappy]

Let me give you all a heads up, I start out with dowels on some of my strikers, this saves me bunches of time. Another thing is I use aggressive sanding to prefinish the strikers initial diameter to the shaft, then follow up with fine sanding. There are many ways to cut your time in turning, but the end result is not about how long it took, it is about how well it turned out...

[magnoliagamecalls]

10 min or less

[West Augusta]

Over an hour to rough one in including the bell.  The hand work takes several hours and then with tuning and finishing.... Days.