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Author Topic: Best wood,and soundboard material.  (Read 8255 times)

Offline EasternGobblerHunter69

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Best wood,and soundboard material.
« on: July 14, 2017, 12:53:56 AM »
Can more than the one guy who was kind enough to give me his opinion on it tell me a good pot material if wood which, soundboard material, and for a two peice dymondwood striker top material for making a plain aluminum call.
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Offline rodney gillikin

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Re: Best wood,and soundboard material.
« Reply #1 on: July 14, 2017, 05:52:25 AM »
hard to beat a cherry or hackberry pot call .
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Re: Best wood,and soundboard material.
« Reply #2 on: July 14, 2017, 06:39:46 AM »
Honestly walnut or Padauk in aluminum over glass should do the trick. Birch top for the striker
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Offline Spitten and drummen

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Re: Best wood,and soundboard material.
« Reply #3 on: July 14, 2017, 09:17:02 AM »
Yellow heart or walnut for the pot. If you want a good mellowed sound I would say slate for a sound board and you want a higher pitch I would go glass . As far as a head for your striker , it comes down to how heavy you like your strikers. Personally I perfer a 1 piece striker on most of my pots. It is sooo many wood combos out that its hard to say what makes the best. In my experience , the denser woods make great pots for aluminum.
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Re: Best wood,and soundboard material.
« Reply #4 on: July 14, 2017, 09:37:40 PM »
My advice is pick a call maker.  Call him and talk.  He and you need to determine what a turkey sounds like to you.  Then let him build you a call out of whatever woods to match that sound. 
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Re: Best wood,and soundboard material.
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2017, 06:34:34 AM »
IMO    3 woods that will never fail to produce a good turkey call black cherry ,,, hard maple and walnut as for the aluminum   want a higher pitched call use glass as sound board like a deeper raspier sound use slate or wood sound board
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Offline EasternGobblerHunter69

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Re: Best wood,and soundboard material.
« Reply #6 on: July 16, 2017, 11:01:44 PM »
Thanks for the advice, ill def either contact jimmy Schaffer and just get a atomic 13 or call brookside and use yalls input and should come up with a good call. Sounds like walnut and cherry are staple call pots.
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