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Offline PEPPERHEAD

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They Cracked!!!
« on: January 19, 2020, 08:50:50 AM »
I was transferring all my stuff out of my old vest and into my new Glenda Green satchel. I found two of my pots were cracked. Halloran slate and Halloran glass. They both have some age on them. The glass was my “go to” call. Weird that only the Hallorans were cracked.

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Re: They Cracked!!!
« Reply #1 on: January 19, 2020, 09:39:05 AM »
If they cracked and were together or close together i dont think its weird. Maybe something got sat on them when the vest was off. Did you fall and hit something on that part of your vest??
I'd try to trace back after you last used them of how that vest was taken care of..

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Re: They Cracked!!!
« Reply #2 on: January 19, 2020, 09:58:35 AM »
Were they left in the vest in a non-temperature controlled garage?

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Re: They Cracked!!!
« Reply #3 on: January 19, 2020, 10:05:00 AM »
Were they left in the vest in a non-temperature controlled garage?
Yea. This is what I thought


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Re: They Cracked!!!
« Reply #4 on: January 19, 2020, 10:07:46 AM »
Good point. Not suggesting anything wrong with the quality of the calls. They have served me well. We did get after a bird late last season and did a lot of crawling. Could have put pressure on them then.

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Re: They Cracked!!!
« Reply #5 on: January 19, 2020, 10:09:58 AM »
Were they left in the vest in a non-temperature controlled garage?
Yea. This is what I thought
I've had them crack in my house even, and it was likely because the furnace was pulling literally all of the humidity out of the air as it'd be running almost all night non-stop when it's 0 degrees. Was suggested by a call maker to keep a humidifier in my call room, and fingers crossed, still no problems this winter and it's been running pretty hard lately.

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Re: They Cracked!!!
« Reply #6 on: January 19, 2020, 10:12:07 AM »
Post a picture of the cracks.... Wood movement cracks almost always look the exact same,  no matter the maker, they always split in the same spot.

 Impact cracks will always be different and usually unique to each other.

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Re: They Cracked!!!
« Reply #7 on: January 19, 2020, 10:12:19 AM »
The calls were in a climate controlled basement.

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Re: They Cracked!!!
« Reply #8 on: January 19, 2020, 10:14:26 AM »
Both are cracked straight across the playing surface.

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Re: They Cracked!!!
« Reply #9 on: January 19, 2020, 10:21:32 AM »
lay them  calling surface down on hard flat surface see if they warped may rock a bit or can see gap in one spot each side of wood rim    may have got wet at some point seeing the slate cracked
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Re: They Cracked!!!
« Reply #10 on: January 19, 2020, 10:22:55 AM »
I know halloran usually makes laminate pots, but are they solid wood by any chance?
I've yet to have a laminate pot call surface crack (not saying it can't happen), but definitely have had solid woods warp and crack the playing surface.

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Re: They Cracked!!!
« Reply #11 on: January 19, 2020, 10:30:33 AM »
Both are very early calls from him. Both solid wood.

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Re: They Cracked!!!
« Reply #12 on: January 19, 2020, 10:36:54 AM »


here is a laminated pot that the glass cracked. it was inside the house for a long time

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Re: They Cracked!!!
« Reply #13 on: January 19, 2020, 11:04:30 AM »
I had the 20th anniversary pot from David and sat in the cabinet for 6 months. I went to pull it out one day and the surface was cracked. I sent it back to him over 6 months ago and still haven’t heard back from him to determine what caused it


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Re: They Cracked!!!
« Reply #14 on: January 19, 2020, 11:25:18 AM »
I had the 20th anniversary pot from David and sat in the cabinet for 6 months. I went to pull it out one day and the surface was cracked. I sent it back to him over 6 months ago and still haven’t heard back from him to determine what caused it

Vertically laminated pots always crack this way. See how Schaffer above yours is the same? The wood is moving in the laminations and pulling the wood apart. With these, as Mike mentioned, if you set them on their surface you should be able to see where the wood has moved and cupped slightly.

Solid wood pots will almost always split across the pot horizontally in the bottom of upper third.