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Turkey Calls => Call Making => Topic started by: socalturkeyman on April 12, 2011, 08:24:39 PM

Title: first of fifteen!
Post by: socalturkeyman on April 12, 2011, 08:24:39 PM
Here are the first two of 15 I'll be making. I need to make some strikers for them. I'll be selling these as soon as I make those strikers. thanks for looking.
(http://i1228.photobucket.com/albums/ee443/socalturkeyman/S3010065.jpg)
Title: Re: first of fifteen!
Post by: cleanslate on April 12, 2011, 09:01:35 PM
Nice, what kinds of woods are they?
Title: Re: first of fifteen!
Post by: socalturkeyman on April 12, 2011, 09:21:51 PM
The guy at the lumber yard told me that it was cedar but I dont think it is. But he also said that it was used for fence post. So Im not to sure,BUt they sound great. I've had a few ppl stalk up to me thinking I was a real hen using them.

The Strikers that sound the best are made out of oak.
Title: Re: first of fifteen!
Post by: Bonjour on April 13, 2011, 12:30:49 AM
That looks more like douglas fir to me, or pine. Nice looking calls though.  :icon_thumright:
Title: Re: first of fifteen!
Post by: culpeper on April 13, 2011, 12:44:56 PM
Ryan, I was thinking the same thing...if it was doug fir the grain would/should be straighter so this looks like pine of some sort.  I am making a couple boxes out of some great super straight grain old growth doug fir--they usually turn out very nice.
Title: Re: first of fifteen!
Post by: MarkJM on April 13, 2011, 01:14:06 PM
What type of sound does a pine scratcher make? sharp, dull, loud, quiet?
Title: Re: first of fifteen!
Post by: socalturkeyman on April 13, 2011, 06:22:22 PM
thats what the guy called it Douglas fir cedar. BUt i never heard of a douglas fir cedar before. Ive heard of cedar and douglas fir, But never a douglas fir cedar. lol well any ways Its got a big range in sound actually. It can be really soft or super loud if you want it to be. And the ones ive made are raspy with a good roll over. Purrs are out of this world with this type of call and wood.
Title: Re: first of fifteen!
Post by: cleanslate on April 13, 2011, 06:39:06 PM
I was thinking some sort of evergreen. The first bowl that I ever turned was was out of a piece of a hemlock barn beam and the grain looked very similar.
Title: Re: first of fifteen!
Post by: smurf on April 21, 2011, 08:26:36 PM
It could be douglas fir but I'd bet against cedar.  The guy at the lumber yard has no clue if he thinks fir and cedar are the same. 
Title: Re: first of fifteen!
Post by: bowhunter84 on April 22, 2011, 11:43:18 AM
looks good