I don't have a lot of strikers and wanted to get some suggestions of wood preferences for strikers. So...what is your favorite wood for a striker? and why? and if you suggest ivory, corian, etc. for tips.
I like hickory on slate, glass, and aluminum. Aptung, Mascar Ebony, and walnut on crystal. I like cherry on slate to. Purple heart will grab aluminum fairly well.
I have a striker from Harolds custom strikers with corian on walnut that runs pretty sweet on crystal. I also have mammoth, walrus tusk, and whale bone. They all sound ok, but are more for show.
I prefer a straight tip striker over flared
padauk sounds great and plays well on all surfaces
I love purple heart, use it most of the time. Makes a high pitch call
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Quote from: Cut*N*Run on May 18, 2011, 08:43:08 PM
padauk sounds great and plays well on all surfaces
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Also Osage, Zebra and Purpleheart. Always in my vest!
I love turning maple, poplar, and apple. apple by far my favorite. it turns beautifully and just shaves right off. it is a VERY tight grain and I would recommend it for anybody,
Black Locust for everything.
Quote from: West Augusta on May 19, 2011, 10:06:13 AM
Black Locust for everything.
Shhh! You're letting out a classified piece of information. ;D
Depends on the individual call...
My copper calls love cedar for soft sounds, but get down right nasty with an osage striker.
My slates sound great with the likes of osage, black locust, maple, pecan, bubinga, canarywood, persimmon...
On glass, I like maple, mahogany, bubinga, canarywood...
Anodized aluminum - DYMONDWOOD!
AAAAHHHH so many good woods but I like Apple, Osage, Musclewood and Maple...in that order. Those sound good or better on lots of surfaces.
Quote from: lightsoutcalls on May 19, 2011, 10:11:11 AM
Shhh! You're letting out a classified piece of information. ;D
Well now that the secret's out I guess I really do have to get that piece of black locust from my pap's that I've been meaning to get. I really like walnut if the grain is tight, purpleheart and osage.
Laminated oak followed by a CLOSE second purpleheart, However i can see that im gonna have to cut up the HUGE locust tree that clobbered the stable on my grandads farm now b4 my uncle turns it into fence post or firewood. :you_rock:
I've made strikers out of 45+ different woods and usually carry at least 6 strikers made from different woods in my vest while hunting with another 6-8 in the vehicle. The selection varies by the weather, the calls I'm carrying and sometimes if the birds aren't responding, I'll change out calls and strikers during the hunt if I get back to the vehicle. I never go out without a Brazilian Cherry and the mystery wood ( I think it's Mascarey, Ryan Bonjour thinks it's Manzanita) in my vest. If you haven't tried Brazilian Cherry you're missing the boat
I like yellowheart but so did he and look where it got him!
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I really like persimmon, canarywood, bubinga and my supreme ivory tipped cocobolo..... by the way what the heck is musclewood????
I was curious about the brazillian cherry had never heard one but do have some scrap wood from a mill.
If i had pick one wood it would be canary ,, followed by hickory and cherry
The one in my pocket when i am toteing a turkey out of the woods.
Roost Wrecker-- I got a bunch of Brazilian Cherry several years ago when a friend was putting a "million dollar" deck around his house utilizing 1" Brazilian Cherry. It's one of those woods which seems to run well on every call you try it on, is easy to maintain, extremely hard and dense, and will produce that high, but raspy yelp and cutts which drives birds crazy. After I made my initial striker, I made a Brazilian Cherry "boat paddle striker" for all the folks I hunt with, and I'll guarantee that they all carry theirs as one of the strikers they go to first and most.
Quote from: Roost Wrecker on May 21, 2011, 11:19:30 PM
I was curious about the brazillian cherry had never heard one but do have some scrap wood from a mill.
I love jatoba for strikers, followed closely by dogwood
Quote from: Roost Wrecker on May 21, 2011, 11:19:30 PM
I was curious about the Brazilian cherry had never heard one but do have some scrap wood from a mill.
Last strut made me a call and sent me a Brazilian cherry striker sounds great on my an iodized aluminum call
Nothing and I mean nothing can be the sound and the use of an Ebony or an Ebony tipped striker on all calling surfaces. I prefer a flared tipped striker also.
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I believe Jatoba and Brazilian Cherry are the same wood. Someone confirm this for me? Musclewood is a small tree (bush) that grows in the understory of most hardwoods. It does not get very big, the biggest I have seen is 6" diameter but average is 4". It is very, very dense but cuts like butter on the lathe. Some people call it ironwood but I am sure "ironwood" is a different tree depending on who you ask. I cut and dry my own.
Butu, best striker wood out there! Nothing beats it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Monkeywood on glass or crystal.
hickory or rosewood
Blk Locus, Purpleheart, Chechen, Tulip, Hickory, Diamond wood for glass and slate calls.
Quote from: KryptoniteKills on June 03, 2011, 02:01:30 PM
I believe Jatoba and Brazilian Cherry are the same wood. Someone confirm this for me? Musclewood is a small tree (bush) that grows in the understory of most hardwoods. It does not get very big, the biggest I have seen is 6" diameter but average is 4". It is very, very dense but cuts like butter on the lathe. Some people call it ironwood but I am sure "ironwood" is a different tree depending on who you ask. I cut and dry my own.
Hornbeam. Not Hophornbeam.
I just finished a Hornbeam striker for a member.