First sorry I been looking and commenting jus hasn't posted here in a while ... My first question is has anyone had any experience using Cypress for pot calls ? Is it soft like cedar or harder type wood ?
A local guy w/ a saw mill has some ( rough cut ) he is asking $2and some change per board ft. , I don't understand "board foot" so any help is greatly appreciated Thanks ...Jason
Cypress is very hard. I climb and trim trees for a living and cypress is so hard that I can't even hardly get my spikes to dig into it.
I've seen a formula somewhere thats used to figure board feet prices. I'll check a couple sites I would have come across it at and post it here.
Found it, I hope.
The one I found im my notes is (T x W x L) รท 12 x price
A board foot is 12"x12"x1" = 144cuin
So a pot call being 4x4x1=16cuin. Take the 16/144 = .111board feet. So you can get, in theory, 9 pot call blanks out of 1 board foot.
2" X 8" X 8',,, 2X8 = 16 X 96 = 1536 divided by 144 = 10.6 board feet.
Bob
Ok I see now , THANK y'all a bunch, the gentleman quickly tried explaining it on the phone but I couldn't completely get what he was saying, but seeing it written out makes sense, a thanks for letting me know that cypress is that hard , may still try a few to see what it sounds like Thanks again, Jason
Cypress is not a very hard wood, it ranks 570 on the janka scale it is a similar to poplar in hardness. It does make a decent pot call, very easy to turn and it is a nice looking wood. You are going to be looking at 4/4 wood from a sawmill which is 1" thick they break it down in 1/4" increments. I don't know where you are in nc but I have been buying mine for $1.35 a bf ( board ft).
Dave
I have a cypress box call made by a guy by the name of Chad Griep about 7-8 years ago. It is a great sounding call. I've never tried to use climbing spikes on one, but the box call I have seems to be pretty lightweight (soft).
cypress is a soft wood the janka chart shows it at 570 and cedar is 900. check out this link to see the janka chart. http://tinytimbers.com/janka.htm
hope that helps
I don't understand why it's so hard to spike into.. I had to climb and trim a big cypress Thursday and this thing was hard as a brick... I ended up throwin my rope around a limb above me and pullin myself up with it.. I done a couple oaks that same day and has no problem spiking into them.
Thanks wendell and everyone and Thanks for the chart , I had seen it before on here and couldn't remember what the name was or where I seen it, I'm in central NC so I'm assuming that's why it's a lil higher here. I'm prolly gonna def try it in a call if I see a decent looking piece, and yeah he did say his stuff was rough cut lumber. I had been out to his place and looked at exactly what he has there yet though.
My girlfriends dad does tree work also but as far as I'm aware cypress isn't native to my area here in the central part of nc /va border man.