Which striker wood is your favorite for glass or Crystal pots ? List your top 5 favorite striker woods for glass or Crystal potd
I really only have one favorite...Padauk.
Mine probably black locust
Snakewood and dymondwood
Snakewood for my glass
Snakewood, Osage, Dymondwood
Snakewood - either Fowler osage/snakewood or Clay T - persimmon/snakewood and Bill Lyman all snakewood, Dymondwood, webbwood, white and black macassar. My favorite waterproof striker is Wood Wise Mystic striker or Rick Alessandrini - Becote top carbon fiber with antler tip. Other great strikers are Clay Townsend appleJack and Bloodwood striker... I have lots of others but these are the ones i use the most on all surfaces...
Snakewood and tulipwood
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1. Mac ebony from JLH Lyman or Fowler
2. Dymondwood from Lon
3. Snakewood from any listed
4. Frogwood JLH
5. Ipe
Halloran Ipe though I have several of this wood I like
Stuckey Tulipwood though I have several in this wood that I like.
Dymondwood from Neal
I have a 2 piece snakewood with a [Persimmon] head and snakewood rings from Clay Townsend that I am liking
Frogwood JLH
Stuckey Mac Ebony though I did not like it at first, I found I had to play it a little differently.
I also prefer a mushroom tip over a flarred or straight tip which is why I like Stuckey and Halloran so much.
1. Frogwood from Jeff Harrison (JLH)
2. Dymondwood from ... I prefer a heavy striker though
Nothing past these 2
Stuckey Tulipwood
Dymondwood, ebony, snake, ipe, osage
- Heavy, dense woods that grip well and easily create rasp
JHL—Bullfrog, Tulipwood, and Heavy Cedar. His Heavy Hickory plays awfully well also.
Dymondwood
Snakewood
Mac.Ebony
Pretty dependent imo on call surface, wood itself and certainly striker size, shape, etc.
For crystal no particular order :
Yellow heart
Macassar ebony
Ipe
Dymondwood
Really high pitch ear thumping striker
Hickory
Jatoba
Black Locust
I like a lot of woods. JLH makes my favorite strikers, and I'll list a few of my favorites of his in a minute, but before that..I really like my Neal Herrman Tulipwood and gaboon ebony...that gaboon ebony plays well on just about everything. I also like my Stuckey tulipwood. And a Fowler black locust(my #3 favorite striker)...one of my all-around best strikers. It plays well on every call I have.
Back to JLH...my #1 is my new TSS edition heavy cedar. It is such a good striker, and makes everything sound good! Others of his that I love are his heavy hickory, frogwood (of course...if you don't have one, you need one), snakewood (really good on crystal), Mac ebony, tulipwood, Honduran rosewood, pernambuco, hormigo, sinker bullet tree (probably my #2 overall striker), sinker sapodilla (excels on crystal, and really sings on copper)...you get the point. Jeff makes an unbelievable striker that just works for me. I have more (and a problem with buying Jeff's strikers), and any of them can do well, but these are some of my favorites.
Wait...you just asked for five woods...my bad.
Rutland / Tulipwood / Ipe
Mac ebony- then dymondwood
Depends on calling surface. Slate Purple Heart. Crystal. Dymondwood.
I have too many too list. My favorite depends on the pot and surface I'm using at the time. That said I'm partial to the medium weight and harness woods like hickory, locust, maple, etc.