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Title: Looking for a new Striker
Post by: TKE921 on March 05, 2015, 06:59:44 PM
I am looking to buy a new striker or 2 but I need a question answered first.  All of the strikers I currently have or have used have had what I will call a standard tip.  What is the difference in the flared tip?  Does it make the call easier to run or is it just for sound quality?
Title: Re: Looking for a new Striker
Post by: dreis3 on March 05, 2015, 07:17:20 PM
Flared tips are supposedly easier to run.  I personally prefer a straight tip; I feel it's more versatile.  Just my  :z-twocents:
Title: Re: Looking for a new Striker
Post by: West Augusta on March 05, 2015, 07:23:33 PM
Quote from: dreis3 on March 05, 2015, 07:17:20 PM
Flared tips are supposedly easier to run.  I personally prefer a straight tip; I feel it's more versatile.  Just my  :z-twocents:


^^This
Title: Re: Looking for a new Striker
Post by: Spitten and drummen on March 05, 2015, 08:08:53 PM
I prefer straight tip as well. It seems as the mushroom tip is a whole lot more popular now days.
Title: Re: Looking for a new Striker
Post by: Turkeyman62 on March 05, 2015, 08:32:24 PM
Straight tip for me also .
Title: Re: Looking for a new Striker
Post by: drum817 on March 05, 2015, 08:47:52 PM
I like straight tip also.  I tried some flair tipped strikers and I personall thought they weren't any easier to run and I felt like it was a bit harder to pull out the front end on the yelps.
Title: Re: Looking for a new Striker
Post by: TKE921 on March 05, 2015, 09:59:51 PM
Thank you guys for the info.  Where would be some places to get a standard tip striker?  I don't really want anything fancy. The one I gave basically looks like a baseball bat and I am happy with its shape and weight.  The places I have looked so far were all flare tip strikers.
Title: Re: Looking for a new Striker
Post by: dreis3 on March 05, 2015, 10:10:45 PM
Harold Fowler, Steve Torman  (west Augusta here on OG), or Bill Lyman (callmakerman here on the forum)
Title: Re: Looking for a new Striker
Post by: zelmo1 on March 06, 2015, 09:44:22 AM
 :gobble: Mr. Fowler is great. I prefer a straight tip