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Argentine Lignum Vitae x Juma

Started by Scpossum, December 01, 2018, 06:03:05 AM

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Scpossum

Starting to like this Argentine Lignum Vitae (verawood). It sounds and turns great with a natural camo color.


gergg

Looks nice....I like Verawood/ALV too, it is so much easier to work with than Genuine Lignum Vitae.
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Scpossum

 It is easy to turn and doesn't crack and check.  I have a board of genuine LV coming tomorrow, so I guess I will find out what you are talking about.

gergg

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Quote from: Scpossum on December 01, 2018, 10:11:46 PM
It is easy to turn and doesn't crack and check.  I have a board of genuine LV coming tomorrow, so I guess I will find out what you are talking about.

The Genuine Lignum I have is very old/dry/hard stuff, and it is by far the worst wood I have worked with. I had to sharpen my tools multiple times throughout the turning and went super slow. I do have lots of twists/turns in my trumpet design which seemed to cause issues for me, so hopefully you won't run into any difficulties.,,,,Good luck and take care....Greg
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2022 NWTF Grand Nationals - 5th Place Air Operated Call (Trumpet)
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2021 NWTF Grand Nationals - 5th Place Air Operated Call(Trumpet Call)
2019 NWTF Grand Nationals - 3rd Place Air Operated Call(Trumpet Call)
2019 NWTF S.E. Call Makers Contest - 4th Place Trumpet Calls

antnye

 One word fellers. Carbide.

Nice looking horn!

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Lignum makes for a really good call
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gergg

Quote from: antnye on December 02, 2018, 07:52:01 AM
One word fellers. Carbide.

Nice looking horn!

Yeah, carbide is in my future, HSS works fine on everything else so I have procrastinated.
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2022 NWTF Grand Nationals - 5th Place Air Operated Call (Trumpet)
2021 NWTF Grand Nationals - 2nd Place Air Operated Call(Trumpet)
2021 NWTF Grand Nationals - 5th Place Air Operated Call(Trumpet Call)
2019 NWTF Grand Nationals - 3rd Place Air Operated Call(Trumpet Call)
2019 NWTF S.E. Call Makers Contest - 4th Place Trumpet Calls

gergg

https://www.gwaltneygamecalls.com/

Greg Gwaltney Game Calls
2022 NWTF Grand Nationals - 5th Place Air Operated Call (Trumpet)
2021 NWTF Grand Nationals - 2nd Place Air Operated Call(Trumpet)
2021 NWTF Grand Nationals - 5th Place Air Operated Call(Trumpet Call)
2019 NWTF Grand Nationals - 3rd Place Air Operated Call(Trumpet Call)
2019 NWTF S.E. Call Makers Contest - 4th Place Trumpet Calls

Scpossum

You are correct about carbide!  Nice tools to work with. Cannot believe I didn't switch over before now.

davisd9

Nice looking call


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Scpossum

Thanks for all the kind comments. Here is an example of the color change. In the middle is one of my personal trumpets out of Arg. LVitae that has aged and the strikers are genuine Lignum turned the past couple of days. Light brown to dark green. The striker on the left has already started to darken after one day.


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Chris O

I like the looks of that wood especially after a little aging.You build some nice looking calls.

savduck

History lesson. Lignum Vitae is the hardest wood on the hardness scale.

It is commonly used as bearings. The US used it in bearing in World War II boats as supplies dwindled. The wood had a natural oil that lubricated itself. After the war several engineers took stats from the wear that the bearings took compared to steel bearing. They almost didn't have any wear. It is still highly sought out  as bearings. Many of the boats we're decommissioned and their lignum bearings salvaged. Many of those bearing are still being sold

There is a guy up north that has a warehouse full of real old growth lignum blocks and bearings. It takes for ever to dry. He has just a little for turning stock, it's been sitting on a shelf drying since the like 1952.

It makes an awesome trumpet.
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