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When added to a turkey call order, adding individual strikers adds no additional s/h fees!
When purchasing strikers only, include $3.75 shipping/handling for the purchase of 1-4 strikers.

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2-Piece Dymondwood & Maple... and
2-Piece Rosewood & Maple

ONE FREE** with purchase of every Custom Call

One striker will come standard with each pot call ordered from the website. The sound quality is excellent and both the Dymondwood and rosewood are extremely easy to play.

(Dymondwood is beautiful color laminate impregnated with resin to create a dense wood that plays easily!)
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**Either a 2-Piece Rosewood or 2-Piece Dymondwood striker comes standard with each call; only one striker will be shipped per call. Striker choice based on inventory and/or sound preference by John. Thanks!

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2-Piece Carbon
$5.75

For wet weather play on any surface... the most inexpensive striker you can get because *everyone* should have one in their vest "just in case!"  This is a hollow piece of carbon with a flat cut and the handle is unpolished to keep the price low.

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2-Piece Gaboon Ebony & Redheart 
$17


New for the 2017 season! This is a great way to gain the beautiful sound of a gaboon ebony striker without the added expense of the 1-piece product!
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​NEW 2017 2-Piece Acrylic WATERPROOF

$9
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NEW 2017 2-Piece Carbon-Tipped WATERPROOF

$12

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2-Piece Carbon-Tipped WATERPROOF

Sale $9

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Hickory

$10

Hickory is very dense and has good shock resistance. Sands, turns, stains, and polishes well.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 51 lbs/ft3 (820 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 1820lbf (8096 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.82

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Laminate Striped

$10 


Hardness is rated as medium, and the wood is heavy.
Avg Dry Wgt (?): 44 lbs/ft3 (710 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 1260lbf (5605 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.71
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Southwest Desert
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Fire Mtn Camo
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American Blood
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Forest Green
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Hot Pink
Sunrise
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Green Mountain Camo
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Fire Rich Red
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Bubinga

$15 

Figured Bubinga is an exotic wood native to Africa, and is very similar to rosewood. The wood is hard, with a reddish brown color, and lustrous figure. Some of the wood features darker grain striping, a fine texture and finishes very smoothly, with a lustrous and almost glassy look.
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Avg Dry Wgt (?): 55 lbs/ft3 (880 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 2410lbf (10720 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.88

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​Yellowheart

$15 

Yellowheart, an exotic wood also called Pau Amarello, can grow to more than 130 feet tall and 30" in diameter. It has large leaves upwards of 10" long and 4" wide and a wonderful show of creamy white, fragrant flowers. Pau Amarello trees are found almost exclusively in the State of Para, Brazil.
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Avg Dry Wgt (?): 54 lbs/ft3 (860 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 1878lbf (8354 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.80

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​Bloodwood

$15
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Bloodwood is an exotic wood that is sometimes referred to as cardinal wood, for its obvious beautiful deep rose color. The wood is very dense, with a tight fine, mostly linear grain.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 66 lbs/ft3 (1050 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 2900lbf (12900 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.96

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Purpleheart

$15 
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Purpleheart is an exotic wood with mechanical properties of the wood are reported to lie somewhere between those of Greenheart and Oak. Exceptional tolerance for shock loading.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 58 lbs/ft3 (930 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 2520lbf (11210 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.86

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​Royal Ebony (Katalox)

$15  

Katalox is an exotic wood that is native to Central America. It is far superior in strength to either Teak or Hard maple. It is very hard - much harder than White oak, Hard maple, or Teak. The wood is exceptionally heavy. It weighs much more than Hard maple or Teak in the green or seasoned condition. The wood is very dense.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 70 lbs/ft3 (1122 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 3660lbf (16280 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 1.04

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​Osage Orange

$15  

Osage Orange is an exotic wood from South America that is very dense. Osage Orange can be quite difficult to work with due to its density but, is quite strong.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 54 lbs/ft3 (855 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 2760lbf (12277 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.81

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​Bocote

$17 

Bocote is an exotic wood native to Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies. It features a wide range of grain patterns from straight to wild, with curved lines and swirls. The color ranges from golden brown to tan to golden yellow. It is a hard, heavy, and dense wood, strong and stiff, with a medium texture.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 50 lbs/ft3 (800 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 2010lbf (8941 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.73

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Mexican Cocobola

$20 (less figured)
$25 (highly figured - as pictured)

Extremely popular hardwood... One of today’s most prized lumbers for its outstanding color and figure; yet also one of the most infamous for its difficulty in gluing and its tendency to cause allergic reactions in woodworkers. The wood is very durable and strong, with a fine texture. It is extremely beautiful, ranging in color from dark red to reddish brown, with an irregular grain pattern. 
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Avg Dry Wgt (?): 68 lbs/ft3 (1100 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 2960lbf (13167 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 1.10

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​Tulipwood
$25 (less figured - pictured with calls)
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$30 (highly figured - pictured separately) 
Tulipwood is an exotic wood native to the tropical region of South America, mainly Brazil. It is a hard and heavy wood, with a rather fine texture. The sapwood is a solid yellow color, while the heartwood color ranges from a pink to a darker red, with a straw colored background.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 60 lbs/ft3 (970 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 2500lbf (11121 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.91

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​​Gaboon Ebony

$30 

Gaboon Ebony is an exotic wood native to Western Africa. It is an extremely hard, dense, and heavy wood, with a very fine texture. The sapwood is pink to pale red-brown in color, while the heartwood is a uniform jet-black or black-brown streaked. Gaboon Ebony is somewhat difficult to work with on both hand and machine tools.

Avg Dry Wgt (?): 63 lbs/ft3 (1000 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 3080lbf (13701 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 0.90
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​Snakewood

$30, $40, $50 & $60 (price based on level of figure...email requesting photos of current inventory in your price range)

​he RAREST of Exotic Hardwoods... Snakewood is an exotic wood known technically as piratinera guianensis, snakewood comes from a small, relatively rare tree found in the forests of Central and South America. An extremely dense hardwood, snakewood can be somewhat challenging to work with. It splits fairly easily and tends to be splintery. It's also hard to cut and drill. 

Wgt 
(?): 76 lbs/ft3 (1210 kg/m3) | Janka Hardness (?): 3800lbf (16903 N) | Specific Gravity (?): 1.08
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Julian, PA 16844

Phone: 814-404-6164
Email: jmscustomcalls@gmail.com

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