Fence post cedar, what was in the ground.

[Wingboneman]

I dug this up a few weeks ago and have been letting it dry in the shop after washing the mud off of it, and today cut some up to see if it would make a few calls. I have used a lot of the tops of post but never what was in the ground, hope it works will know in a day or two. I know it has been in the ground for about 40 years or more, My dad or the old man next door put it in the ground and i dug it up.
question would it be anything like what i hear people say is mud cured? what is mud cured?

[outdoors]

I WONDER IF ITS SOMETHING LIKE PETRIFIED 

[TarheelTurk]

That should make some awesome looking calls!!


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[M,Yingling]

Nice wood should make for some nice calls

for mud cured I believe what it means is when wood is in wet ground and the wood suks up all the minerals from the dirt and the wetter the ground the more the wood will change colors or its called mineral stained wood    I snapped a pic of wood here osage plain and mud cured and maple same thing

[gwa]

Nice looking Curtis!!

[Chuck1443]

That's interesting , sure gives character


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[Wingboneman]

up date!!  I had cut out and glued up 8 calls and tried today to start tuning 4 up,  for the life of me could not get one to sound like i thought it should so all 8 went in the wood stove. lesson learned stop experimenting

[outdoors]

   SAY WHAT ?

[paboxcall]

Well now, didn't see that coming. 

[WillowRidgeCalls]

Nice wood should make for some nice calls

for mud cured I believe what it means is when wood is in wet ground and the wood suks up all the minerals from the dirt and the wetter the ground the more the wood will change colors or its called mineral stained wood    I snapped a pic of wood here osage plain and mud cured and maple same thing

Osage will do that if it's in the ground or not? Osage turns dark after a while.

[nx95240]

I have a lot of mud cure hedge and with turning it  smell like horse pop..

[M,Yingling]

That's to bad the calls didn't work out

WillowRidge
Yes osage it can turn pretty brown if no finish even with finish over time it will turn ,, but the box I got come from the ground its green not completely but hey I take what I can get LOL