Hand Whittled Striker

[hunter22]

Here's one I finished today out of Peach. Soft wood that sounds good on copper and slate.

[Roughneck]

Looks good

[sbbow]

Nicely done!!!

[callmakerman]

I want mine from dogwood please.  Nice work Rickey

[Idratherb]

MAN RICKEY I WISH I HAD YOUR MONEY AND TIME...ID BE ALOT HAPPIER

[hunter22]

Maybe my time Jeff. If you had my money you would be in big trouble. But when you get my age and the kids are all college educated and on their own it does not take much to get by. But wait, then the grandkids start showing up wanting something from Pawpaw. Oh well, they will get it as long as I have something to give. 

[outdoors]

MAYBE HE HAS A HIDDEN TREE THAT HE CLIMBES TO HAVE SOME QUALITY ALONE TIME TO
                                         WHITTLE       

[hunter22]

Bill,

I am not sure if these are going to work. Quite a bit of spalting in a Pink Dogwood. I am hoping to have enough wood to make four like these. If I do one of them will be headed to Rome, NY. But with the fine strikers you make you will laugh at my Hillbilly style.

[Triple B]

Maybe my time Jeff. If you had my money you would be in big trouble. But when you get my age and the kids are all college educated and on their own it does not take much to get by. But wait, then the grandkids start showing up wanting something from Pawpaw. Oh well, they will get it as long as I have something to give.

You could always give them a pot call or two.You should have plenty to go around.

[callmakerman]

Bill,

I am not sure if these are going to work. Quite a bit of spalting in a Pink Dogwood. I am hoping to have enough wood to make four like these. If I do one of them will be headed to Rome, NY. But with the fine strikers you make you will laugh at my Hillbilly style.

No laughing here Rickey they look fine to me and I'm sure they play as well. You mess with enough calls to know what works and what doesn't.

[hunter22]

I think these might work. I wasn't sure when I started whittling and saw all the spalting. Still a long way from finishing. 

[Triple B]

From the first photo when you started, that is some very good work.Especially just using a knife and sandpaper.  They are really taking shape,and they will rip on a call for sure.

[M,Yingling]

Nice work on the strikers ,,,,very cool

[gwa]

I seem to have missed this thread. Pretty nice Rickey!

How dry does the wood have to be?

Denny

[hunter22]

Denny,

I do not have a moisture meter and would not know what was good if I did. When I started whittling a few years ago I got a couple big boxes of 1"X1"X12" pieces of all types of wood from ebay and a forum member. Lots of Oak , Cherry, Maple, Teak, Ash, etc. This wood was all kiln dried. I have about used it all up. Now I am trying to use wood that I find. The Dogwood strikers I am working on now came from a Pink Dogwood that had some dead limbs and had been that way for over a year. The Peach I recently made came from a limb I cut last summer and it had been drying in the barn for a year. I think the best wood to use is standing dead stuff if you can find it.