Glasscall Conditioners

[Brokenbucket]

Some advice about glass call conditioners and/or sanding stones:
I have gone back to 120 grit sand paper, after using a Glass call Sanding Stone, for 2 years. I had trouble with kee-keeing and the more I used the stone, the harder it became and the quality of the kee-kees just kept getting worst.
Upon close inspection of the glass surface, I noticed that the stone was putting deeper grooves, into the surface, thus the striker was breaking contact with the call and the kee-kee notes were being affected.
I have sanded the surface with 120 grit sandpaper (80 grit is like the stone) and the strikers with 180 grit. The call is, once again, keeing like a champ.
The stone did a very fast job of roughening the surface, but it destroyed the ability of the call to produce the quality kee-kee notes to sound realistic. If you use the conditioners/stones and have trouble keeing, sand the surface and restore the call to quality kee-kee notes.

[deerslayer11]

I bought one of those things with the different grits on each end the other year, I, like you, didnt like it on the glass calls, but it worked good on my titanium one.

[flhuntress]

thanks for the advice.