Preciate that, Holdren. I'll be getting my hands on some macassar ebony blanks big enough for one piece strikers pretty soon, hopefully. The Padauk/ebony definitely isn't your run of the mill two piece, it looks good, and runs like a champ. A buddy of mine apparently subscribes to my YouTube, he texted me earlier asking how much I wanted for one of the Padauk/Ebony two piece, he placed an order lol. After talking with Mark Cornelius of MAC calls, it sounds like it's going to take some time before I get a good pot call worthy of selling. He said it took him 3 years to make a good one, and 5 to turn really good ones. Won't be long til I start making them. As ate up as I am with these strikers now, I think I can get a good pot call out in a year, and just keep improving, but it ain't leaving my garage unless it sounds like a slut hen.
Another thing I forgot to mention is I have quite a few cut off pieces of various exotic woods that I didn't know what to do with. Figured I might as well make a few two piece strikers using them. I hate letting it go to waste. I have inch long pieces saved, who knows wtf I'll do with those but I can't just toss them lol. And I also want to enter some calling contests, but I have to master the kee kee run first, I'm slowly getting there with the snakewood striker.
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