Wood choice for strikers?

[barry]

Hey guys I know I've been MIA for a while but I'm back and have a question for you.
A friend who is a whiz with a lathe wants to turn some strikers.
What is your preferred wood for strikers on a glass pot?
Any tips from you call makers on turning/finishing strikers would be greatly appreciated!

Barry

[KentuckyHeadhunter]

My personal favorite is yellowheart. I also like rosewood, persimmon, and of course dymondwood.

[Bowguy]

I second the dymondwood but tulipwood n snake wood are two of my favorites

[wvlimbhanger]

Dymondwood
Snakewood
Tulipwood
Persimmon

[Greg Massey]

Dymondwood
Snakewood
Tulipwood
Persimmon

X2    strikers are like collecting calls... Don't forget red cedar, hickory and osage orange

[Dr Juice]

+ Purple Heart

[EZ]

I do like diamond wood, but always go back to hickory straight tip.

[Spring Creek Calls]

My preferred striker wood for glass or crystal, purpleheart.

[Gooserbat]

Dogwood, persimmon, Osage, blackjack, Hickory,

[Britton40]

Persimmon and Black Locust are my two favorite at the moment. I lost an old Lonnie Sneed hickory with a walnut top this year out west. It was a good un.

[Moore]

got to go with teak

[Double B]

Hickory, black locust, bloodwood and rosewood.  Those are my current favorites on glass.  Ask again closer to April, it may be different........

[SwampRooster17]

Jatoba ipe dymondwood hickory


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[allchokedup]

My favorites are:
Zebra wood
Hickory
Diamond
Ipe

[Spitten and drummen]

1. Dymond wood
2. Macassar ebony
3. snakewood
4. persimmon
Those are my favorit in that order for glass.