I'm hoping you guys can help steer me in the right direction.
I bought 5 pre cut pots from Brookside, (good experience), with 5 different surfaces.
For Pots I have, Ziricote, Mahogany, Purple Heart, Zebra wood, and Padauk.
Striker surfaces are Aluminum, Etched Glass, Copper, Slate, and Slate.
Sound Boards are Glass x3, Slate, and Cedar.
I intend to do Aluminum over glass, Glass over Glass, Copper over Cedar, Slate over slate and Slate over glass.
I also bought a variety pack of strikers so I could play with different sounds on the different combos to see what sounds good to me.
My questions are...
1. Any recommendations as to to which surface combo to match up with which pot?
2. I sanded all 5 pots to 600 on the drill press with a bolt jig I made, they are all pretty slick now. I have Teak oil, and have read that I should do a 'soak' of the oil for 30 min- 24hr let it dry and then buff to awesome. How do you guys do your soaks? pour Teak or Tung or Tru or velvit etc... into a glass brownie pan and let it soak that way? I am curious. I can't soak inside, I have a fire lit 23hrs a day... it'll warm up before long though..
I figure I will just wipe the teak oil onto the strikers (minus the tip inch).
I have plumbers goop in the cabinet already so set there as well.
Any thoughts would be most welcome, looking forward to using these with my nephews for their first hunts this spring.
Thanks in advance, and thanks for the awesome tutorial section that made me start with these pots instead of ordering some for the kids.
-Joe