Ryan,
I appreciate the kind sentiments, especially coming from a call maker of your caliber. Several OG members have PM'd me about the strikers, and to answer their queries; I've made well over 100 boat paddle strikers out of over 45 different woods, but have never sold one. I'd like to make more strikers out of the pictured wood, but I've shown it and the wood to a lot of call makers, and it's still unidentified. I generally carry 8-10 different strikers while hunting due to the fact that I carry 3-4 pot calls w/ different surfaces, and the individual calls all have preferential strikers. I always carry the ? striker, Brazilian cherry, hickory, chinaberry, osage orange and then will mix it up w/ strikers of pink ivory, bubinga, walnut, red cedar, vera wood, mountain laurel, maple, boxwood, American holly, ebony, wenge, purpleheart et al., and tipped strikers with ebony, ivory, bone, aluminum, antler, or corian tips.
Craig
