Favorite Striker

[Greg Massey]

What is your favorite striker for pot calls or slate ?..What kind of wood do you like the most in a striker do you like a round tip or a flare tip?

[wvlimbhanger]

The dymondwood gobblstix striker that Neal on this forum makes if I had to pick just one.

Harold Fowler makes a dandy persimmon I like to run on slate as well.

[davisd9]

Slate: Cedar (thanks to dirt road ninja) and hickory

Glass/Crystal: yellow heart, Purpleheart, bubinga, and monkey wood


Sent from the Strut Zone

[M Sharpe]

The best way to pick a new striker is to carry the call with you!!

[bbcoach]

Mine would be Dymondwood or a laminated striker.  Either one will play extremely well on slate or glass/crystal.  Hickory would be a close second.

[WildTigerTrout]

Hickory and Purpleheart.

[dirt road ninja]

I use 3 woods more than any and I use them all about the same.
bubinga
Yellow heart
Cedar

To pick one??? Cedar is hands down the best for softer calling while keeping rasp. Yellow heart is better loud. Bubinga plays on any surface well, it's similar to Monkey wood IMO.

[Bowguy]

I like hickory on slate, tulipwood and Snakewood on glass., the straighter the tip the better, I don't like em flared or rounded. More like beveled n change tips to suit me

[Yoder409]

Dymondwood
Purple heart
Mesquite

[PALongspur]

My absolute favorites are the laminated birch and oak that Ted Peters made back in the late 90s and early 2000s. I'm afraid to take them in the woods anymore for fear of losing them. Lately I've been using two piece strikers for the most part. Diamondwood and tulipwood, regardless of surface. For waterproof strikers, the absolute best one I've found is made by Dustin Jones. It runs soaking wet and sounds incredible!

[silvestris]

Cheap Woodhaven purpleheart.  I have a drawer full of strikers but always come back to that one.  Go figure.

[Double B]

Always have purple heart, rosewood and hickory two piece strikers on me.   Then a Knight & Hale power tip and one of my own corncob three piece strikers.   Wasn't a huge dymond wood fan before but picked up a Hooks dymond wood gobblestix from a member here and agree w earlier comments.   It will find a place in the vest, as will the Parks tree talker.   The thing is I have a couple more in the mail coming my way so this may change soon!   This is a nice site alright,  but you forgot to tell me about this dangerous addiction.  I confessed this to my wife tonight and she said, and I quote:  "Better than guns."  Thank you Lord,  I love this woman!   

[Gooserbat]

Ipe

[mountman62]

my favorite is an old hickory striker that came with either a Butski or Pittman glass call i got prob 20 years ago, still my go to striker, awesome on slate or ceramic for close up work

[Tail Feathers]

Hickory and Purpleheart.

Same here.