This has always been a curiosity of mine. How much conditioning is too much? On my glass/crystal especially if I get one out to play with it, it gets conditioned (100 grit sanding screen on glass/crystal) before going back up. Same goes for strikers. If at the end of my play time they have build up on the tip of them, they get a the scotchbrite treatment (pad in palm, tip in center, twist till clean). I'm pretty "bad" or "good" depending on if your in the house with me or not about playing my calls. Wife tends to dislike the sounds of a hen turkey the further away from March I get haha. I do play them a lot though. It's good relaxation therapy for me, but I just wanted to see how often or unoften you fellas conditioned your pots/strikers.