Favorite 3 strikers for your slate pots

[Surgical grade]

Rank your favorite 3 strikers for your slate pots! Like many of you, I'm addicted to adding new spring music pieces to my vest, so I thought it would be interesting to hear what your favorites are. You can list the maker/ tip type if you have a preference. I'll start:

1) Purple Heart
2) hickory flare tip
3) heart pine flat tip


What say you?

[scoot12]

Diamondwood and purpleheart are about the only 2 I run on slate calls.  Scoot

[Spitten and drummen]

For slate i like lacewood , rose wood , and persimmon. They are all harold fowler 2 piece strikers. All 3 tops are osage orange. Also they all have straight tips

[jblackburn]

Hickory, persimmon, then either red oak or dymondwood

[West Augusta]

Hickory, persimmon, then either red oak or dymondwood

I'm glad that someone else likes a Red Oak striker.

[MikeStaten]

Lights Out Dymondwood sounds great to me.  Sounds good on all of my slates but really livened up my Snead Hot Hen call. 

[REBELYELL]

Purpleheart
Persimmon
Black Locust

[jblackburn]

Hickory, persimmon, then either red oak or dymondwood

I'm glad that someone else likes a Red Oak striker.

Me, too! I also like that red oak on glass.  seems to "grab" really well

[mastevt]

I carry 3

1) my go to striker is Diamondwood (one piece)
2) Bacote, topped off with ebony
3) Spectreply one piece

[West Augusta]

I'd have to say that right now my 3 favorites are
Black Locust
Dymondwood
Ipe
But that could change tomorrow.

[| Justin |]

Purpleheart
Hickory
Dymondwood

[Y@]

Hickory
Everything else is a distant second.

[perrytrails]

Hickory, persimmon, then either red oak or dymondwood

I'm glad that someone else likes a Red Oak striker.

Me too. I'm running a laminate oak woodhaven on my Sneed Hot Hen. I really like it on slate. I agree, It does grab nice on a glass or crystal surface also.

1. Woodhaven laminate oak
2. Halloran dymond wood
3. Purple Heart

[Spring Fever]

Purple Heart
Diamond wood
Black locust

[R.W. Mackey]

  For a Slate call:

1:  Black Locust, first pick on almost any surface
2:  Osage, little deeper sound, lots of Turkey
2:  Cedar, for a higher pitched call, sometimes works when nothing else will.

RW