Here's a Turpin caller I made out of an antique baseball bat given to me by my neighbor , Miss annie Hull age 79. She brought the bat to me along with another that she and her siblings would knock rocks around with and asked if I could make a turkey caller with them . She got the bat around 1940, and played with it on the farm she was raised on near Dayton, Ohio. I added some scraps to round it out and she came out nice . The lid is redheart and the base is made of old barn chestnut and some ipe recovered from the coney island pier. She has that classic Turpin "bark" , yelps easy with nice clucks and purrs . Even has a little gobble in her . Thanks for looking !
Bob
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Well I'll be darn, a fine looking call it is and for me I was fortunate to hear this call today and to my ears it sounds as good as it looks. I like the notion that us callmakers, frugal that we are, have the foresight and skills to turn and old, but not fully used up clunk of wood into a fine instrument like a turkey call. That also must be one of the nicest hunks of ash I have ever seen. :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:
Dang,Bob,you amaze me sometimes. Great recycled bat.
Thats awesome Bob. If that bat could only tell the story of where it's been.
TRKYHTR
That's as fine a call as I've seen, congratulations!
You call makers amaze me. Id love to get into makin calls. I'm afraid if I did that's where all my time would go. That's awesome. Great work
Nice looking call! That was a scrap piece of lumber put to good use.
RECYCLING AT ITS BEST :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:
Great Job Bob
That old bat had some tight grain to it didn't it. Very nice call, bet she is tickled.
That is an awesome box, very nice!
very nice!
Quote from: TRKYHTR on June 09, 2013, 09:01:24 PM
Thats awesome Bob. If that bat could only tell the story of where it's been.
TRKYHTR
That's what I was thinking!
that is amazing
Nice one ,,, :icon_thumright:
Super job on that old bat Bob.
What a beautiful call! :icon_thumright: