I have several and I have tried everything I know to get them to sound like a hen. Some are ok but I still won't hunt one because to me they have no rasp. I have been running calls for 35 years and still can't seem to get the sound I like.for you that like ceramic , some pointers on running it please. Thanks
Try a different call maker.... :funnyturkey:
Quote from: JLH on March 24, 2018, 08:58:58 AM
Try a different call maker.... :funnyturkey:
Uuhhh ok. Thanks for your valuable advice.
I do like to score little section with a stone really grips well in that spot and with light striker pressure creates a lot of rasp on the back end my schaffer is actually raspier then I like if I use his red dymondwood striker
My houndstooth was a very young hen sound but man that thing called birds in.
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Quote from: TauntoHawk on March 24, 2018, 09:49:00 AM
I do like to score little section with a stone really grips well in that spot and with light striker pressure creates a lot of rasp on the back end my schaffer is actually raspier then I like if I use his red dymondwood striker
My houndstooth was a very young hen sound but man that thing called birds in.
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They are pretty high pitch and lack that rasp but I guess I should just hunt one and see what happens
Quote from: Spitten and drummen on March 24, 2018, 09:57:09 AM
Quote from: TauntoHawk on March 24, 2018, 09:49:00 AM
I do like to score little section with a stone really grips well in that spot and with light striker pressure creates a lot of rasp on the back end my schaffer is actually raspier then I like if I use his red dymondwood striker
My houndstooth was a very young hen sound but man that thing called birds in.
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They are pretty high pitch and lack that rasp but I guess I should just hunt one and see what happens
I like a ceramic to complement my twisted sister that brings the rasp
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Quote from: Spitten and drummen on March 24, 2018, 09:30:57 AM
Quote from: JLH on March 24, 2018, 08:58:58 AM
Try a different call maker.... :funnyturkey:
Uuhhh ok. Thanks for your valuable advice.
Uuhhh.....it was a joke.....hence the funny turkey emoji.
Bloodwood, Ipe, and Dymondwood run raspy on my Kaiser, Halloran, and Pecker Wrecker ceramics.
I don't put the stone to mine, but every once in a great while I will very lightly hit em with 220. There should be a spot on your pot some where that will bring out some decent mid range rasp.
As far as running it, maybe elongate your striker strokes when yelping a little more???
Try a non wood tip, jb weld, bone, antler, carbon, some may get you more rasp. Wenge strikers can get pretty raspy too.
Try an Osage striker and light pressure seems to help the sound for me. I wasn't a fan for awhile but starting to like it better. I want to try one with aluminum sound board sometime.Chris Brumfiel has a file of one that sounded raspy
Did you try to hold the striker in a different angle with light pressure
Quote from: outdoors on March 24, 2018, 11:06:45 AM
Did you try to hold the striker in a different angle with light pressure
Yes
Jody..... I have owned a bunch of ceramic calls. Some I really like and some I don't care for. My favorites I have now were made by Andy Kaiser, Daybreak, and Stumpy. I used my Stumpy in Colorado a couple years ago to call in a Merriams. I got a Cocobolo striker with a bone tip from Andy Kaiser and it was a match made in heaven for my curly Maple Kaiser ceramic.
Thank you Rickey. I will continue to search for a striker
I added a 1" piece of .300 ID carbon arrow to my striker. And conditioned the call with some sandpaper more or less just played with it. Until i got the sound i liked. I like the call much better now. IMO the carbon tip and roughing up the Ceramic went hand in hand.
Once I took the stone to my ceramic it really sounds fantastic with a Fowler 2 piece striker. Striker is a king wood stem with a persimmon top. I would highly recommend it.
I spent some time with Stumpy on Sunday talking turkey and I picked up my first ceramic from him. Combined with a one piece ipe Halloran striker I have, it's now what I consider the BEST sounding pot call I own. And I own a ton of them. This ceramic gets nasty raspy if you want it to. Chad aka Stumpy recommended lightly rubbing a spot with a stone. Also he did mention to make sure not grip the striker hard. Running the call in a direction against the grain if the wood will also help the sound.
Stumpy's ceramic is the most realistic sounding pot call I've ever heard. It's absolutely pure hen.
Runs best for me with the ipe but it also likes a snakewood and a dymondwood striker I have.
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Use 150 to 200 grit diamond paper. Yu will never have another issue
Quote from: chefrific on March 26, 2018, 10:38:07 PM
I spent some time with Stumpy on Sunday talking turkey and I picked up my first ceramic from him. Combined with a one piece ipe Halloran striker I have, it's now what I consider the BEST sounding pot call I own. And I own a ton of them. Chad aka Stumpy recommended lightly rubbing a spot with a stone. Also he did mention not grip the striker hard. Running the call in a direction against the grain if the wood will also help the sound.
Stumpy's ceramic is the most realistic sounding pot call I've ever heard. It's absolutely pure hen.
Runs best for me with the ipe but it also likes a snakewood and a dymondwood striker I have.
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I also just got one of Stumpy's walnut ceramics (today, as a matter of fact). It really, really sounds great. I haven't touched the surface with anything yet - but it will get as raspy as you want and also put out a nice high front. Along with Stumpy's strikers - I ran it with a Lyman hickory & Torman black locust. Both sound great... it will be riding the vest all season.
Today I put a Sinclair snakewood striker to a John Sinclair Ceramic over glass in a purpleheart pot! Rasp and so much realistic turkey came from that call I couldn't imagine how anything could be better! Pure live turkey sounds! I am playing on a small square conditioned with a stone.
Not sure what striker I got with my Daybreak, but it sounds incredible and has plenty of rasp. super easy and consistent to run as well.
I have been a ceramic fan for a long time. I just received a Daybreak Padauk ceramic the other day and it is amazing. My wife has heard an endless amount of calls in her lifetime, including a whole pile at the NWTF this year. Two yelps into a seqence on the daybreak she poked her head around the kitchen doorway and asked if I was running my new call or playing the hen footage on a Claycomb video really loud.
That call sounds great with the supplied dymondwood striker and if I want some extra rasp out of it I run it with a Halloran macassar ebony.