Hey Callmakers - Part II

[duckter]

Cootkiller - that won't get you a free call - but I appreciate your input!

[swamprooter]

Heres my single reed ark.style with a carved checkered barrell I tuned really squeky squawky for bouncin hen

[duckter]

Nice call Swamprooter. What type of wood? Checkering looks great as well.

[duckter]

Duckter wrote:

Need some suggestions on naming my calls. Send all your suggestions and if I choose yours, well, just might be a free call.

I will start with:
"Timbertone Calls"
"Feetdown" Calls
"Cypress Brake Calls

All right, what a creative group you guys are. Come on, need some ideas.

[gn-1]

I turn a few myself. You better watch out this can be very addictive. Are you over on C.C.O. ?

[triggerjw]

How bout "Cupped Up Calls", they look great by the way.

[swamprooter]

Thanks Duckter....I'll use anything...the calls below are coco/gaboon ebony barrell with Af.Blawood stopper. Middle call is Coco barrell with Af blackwood stopper and bottom call is Burl maple with Arcylic barrel.....i make very few because i do not sell them. i just hunt with them. Also my calls are tricky to blow becasue i have them locked down to sound like a raspy/squeaky hen that can bounce or double quack. i love to checker and carve my barrells. i try to make calls that resemble the calls of years gone by.....I call them my "Wooden Hen" calls.....Bottom call is BeldenRebs call but i won't give it too him becasue it sounds so damn good.............good luck with your call makin..you'll have friends you never knew!

[swamprooter]

heres a RNT call i checkered 18 years ago Butch made. I checkered him one too ( sort of!!??!!) and sent it to him. well a lady from Winchester ammo saw my barrel at Butchs shorty after that and she could checker too so she checkered Butch 3 presentation calls. Butch doled them out to his 'special" friends. Well fast forward 18 years until last year I stopped by RNT and showed Butch some old micarta calls I have and this bowdark checkered call was in the sack...he was floored..he THOUGHT it was one of the special call this lady did for him... then i told him No....I did it and sent him one 18-20 years ago..he then remembered..Oh yeah you were that guy....well.. you inspired this lady from Winchester....yada yada.......So it was kind of neat to hear the whole story.......Butch's original checkered barrel was cocobolo and its somewhere in his office he said.......but actually ..........i sent him the checkered barrel in the first place to make me a stopper.... He kept the damn barrel!!!!!!!!!!!.....and obviously never made me a stopper....

[Trip]

Those look awesome, I really like the checkering.

[Roach]

Those look great.
Question for ya'll. Do you drill them out before you turn them? It seems like it would be hard to drill out some of the harder woods after you turned it.

[duckter]

I do pre-drill on a drill press but would rather drill on the lathe - just don't have the drill chuck on my lathe (yet). Seems it would be easier and would definitely be more accurate. And yes, I am on CCO.

[Warren]

i love the calls guys...a few years ago i made my first knife but right now i do not have the place or time to work...when i get out of school and settle down i would like to start back making knifes and would like to try calls...problem is i have never used a lathe so who wants an apprentice??

[duckter]

Another call name: Curlytail Calls Whatcha' think???

[gator]

those calls are SWEET!

i remember that call swamprooter (the first one in your above post)....when i was reading and trying to learn, i went back through all those pages at CCO and got some tidbits on finishing from the post that call was on. i'm thinking you went w/ tung as the finish, but may have been "velvet"???

i've got a black myrtlewood burl w/ a blackwood insert that i'm trying to finish ---- trying.

if anyone wants to shoot me, you'll do me a favor..........damn this stuff.

gator

[swamprooter]

Your right on Gator! i have forgotten all about CCO..man there was a guy on there that handed me my head....he makes tools and stuff....he couldn't stand me using slang talk " bouncng hen"..gosh what was his name? he makes a double reed from oregon....the moderator sent me a PM and apoligized for the guy...i basically left the site 2 years ago but really a neat site and some talented guys on there. I'm just an entry level novice on call makin........anyhoo...i did use tung oil to try to give an 'illusion" of oldness....my tools really suck especially my China lathe...I made recurve bows for years and the Cocobolo kind of scares me now.. I wonder how many old school duck call makers have any pulmanary respiratory symptons? Black Myrtlewood...now thats nice stuff....good luck Gator...this stuff is so addicting... sanding, tuning, filing sanding.tuning, filing, new cork. new reed and on and on....I love it too.