Looking for a beautiful hand made slate call that not only sounds amazing but is beautiful"Craftsmanship " they type of call you wanna pass down to your children one day. Thanks for the info in advance fellas.
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For slate the best looking/sounding I've ever had was a black limba grey slate from lights out turkey calls. Every other slate I've owned has disappointed
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Red slate either Buster or Nathan Taylor
Green slate Brad Roberts (hard to find) or Mark Cornelius
Grey slate Paul Platz and Darren Dawkins (neither easy to get in a wood pot)
There are a lot of great slates out there but Pat Strawser is in a class of his own,
his slates will get soft but also can sound like a crystal or glass
Mark Cornelius , Nathan Taylor ... look at matching you pot call to the conditions you have to hunt ... wind , rain etc... for the pot call surface your looking for, don't get stuck just on slate ....
Mark Cornelius love the green slate I got from him, very pretty and plays very easy.
I would recommend a Buster Halford red slate for sound quality. Not sure if he makes a "beautiful" pot but they sure sound good.
You can give m a call
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Get one from these three and you won't need anymore. Cody, Buster and Parks
Brad Roberts green slate in cedar pot if you can find one
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For me to only pick one slate it would be a Lonnie Mabry cedar slate
For gray slate where craftsmanship and sound come together and fairly easy to get I would look at the Halloran Zebrawood slate. Lots of other fine builders out there with really pretty work and wood choice I just have not run many of them.
I like my Footballer persimmon gray slate as well. Nathan Taylor makes a fine call too in red green or gray. My favorite green slate out of the 7 I have tried is one of Buster's green slate pots. Paul Hicks has excellent craftsmanship and a really good sound.
Nothing wrong at all with a MAC slate either. Just may have to wait a little bit. Same with Blackstone.
Where the actual beauty of the pot material is standard but build finish, functionality and sound still excels it's hard to beat a Dawkins plastic pot or a Parks gobbler slate based on the sound of them I have heard.
Quote from: idratherb on May 05, 2019, 09:15:40 AM
Get one from these three and you won't need anymore. Cody, Buster and Parks
Truth right here. I would add eddie wynn to that list though.
Quote from: MDTOM84 on May 05, 2019, 10:26:13 AM
For me to only pick one slate it would be a Lonnie Mabry cedar slate
2nd that on the cedar!! His Asian Cedar is a killer to
There's lots of makers of great calls. They all sound slightly dif so your ear may lean toward one or another. Schafer, Mac, Halloran and Lonzo make great slates. Nowadays you need to mention a type slate as well.
My top ones that you can still purchase are Scott Hock black limba slate/slate. Chris Brumfiel slate/ glass in a walnut pot and Mike Yingling walnut slate/slate. There are a lot of good slate calls out there .
Gray slate I always go back to my CODY world class. Not that is sounds so much better than some of my other gray slates , just it has a consistant record on the number of birds it works on. I have a bunch of custom gray slate pot calls that sound insanely good , but what the birds like is more important to me.
Quote from: wchadw on May 05, 2019, 09:54:01 AM
Brad Roberts green slate in cedar pot if you can find one
It is a bad combo!!! Definitely get one if you can.
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Black Feather Game Calls makes a heck of a good green slate!