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Strikers made from Harder Wood

Started by bbcoach, April 18, 2019, 06:04:05 PM

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bbcoach

I've got a question concerning hard wood strikers (ie tulipwood, mac ebony and snakewood).  For those of you that use these, do you find that these strikers lend to higher pitched pots?  Most of the strikers I have are mid range hardness (hickory, dymonwood, purpleheart etc).

Sir-diealot

I only have the tulipwood, I would have to say it absolutely makes calls louder though you can still get it to play plenty soft by not being aggressive with it.
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HookedonHooks

I would consider Dymondwood a "Harder" wood striker. I feel as though Dymondwood produces higher pitched sounds than Tulipwood.

With a lot of strikers, particulafy mid range in hardness, you can simply change the pitch with pressure.

MDTOM84

I would say that harder wood strikers make certain pots more raspy. I just got a Lyman cedar striker that makes everything but slate higher pitched. So I would say softer woods make some pots higher pitched

deerpoo22

My snakewood and dymond wood strikers are by far the loudest I have, but that isn't always the case. My Verawood striker is extremely hard but definitely runs on the softer side

golfernash

I tend to run hard strikers most often. Macassar Ebony and Tulipwood being my favorites. The volume is similar but I get more rasp with the Macassar. On slate I tend to run a Tulipwood or Black Locust. They are both awesome but you can get a more piercing note from the Tulipwood

Turkeytider

Quote from: MDTOM84 on April 18, 2019, 06:20:16 PM
I would say that harder wood strikers make certain pots more raspy. I just got a Lyman cedar striker that makes everything but slate higher pitched. So I would say softer woods make some pots higher pitched

My experience as well.