What’s been your deadliest fiddle box combo?

[Riley1]

Just like the title says I'm interested in knowing what combos have been the most successful in the woods? Tj or Marlin.

[rakkin6]

Just like the title says I'm interested in knowing what combos have been the most successful in the woods? Tj or Marlin.

Just got a my first fiddle box from TJ about 2 months ago so haven't had it in the woods yet.

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[rakkin6]

Just like the title says I'm interested in knowing what combos have been the most successful in the woods? Tj or Marlin.

Just got a my first fiddle box from TJ about 2 months ago so haven't had it in the woods yet.

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It's a butternut and canarywood sounds great when I run it.outaide lots of rasp.

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[tlh2865]

I'll preface this by saying that I have talked to Marlin and other guys about calls made with the same woods sounding polar opposite from each other. I have on combo that I was telling another guy about and we agreed that we both really liked it. But when I told him that I loved the different sound it had, like a hen who had smoked 2 packs a day for funny years, he was really surprised. Same call that he played was clean young hen.

Now that I have said all of that, my all walnut and Hophornbeam and Blackgum fiddles from Marlin are just plain dynamite

[MDTOM84]

 Bloodwood over butternut

[Greg Massey]

 Marlin, Mora over walnut misfit and his Mora over walnut fiddle box  and T J walnut over poplar fiddle box .. these are my 3 favorites , but all the ones i have from them both are just as good and killers..

[turkeymanjim]

Here is mine.

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[rakkin6]

Here is mine.

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Nice

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[3bailey3]

Butternut/Macassar

[Spitten and drummen]

Ipe over Butternut

[vt35mag]

Deadliest has been TJ's all walnut.  3 out of 5 longbeards last spring were struck and finished with it, and it alone.
Deadliest of Marlins has been maccasar over butternut.

[shatcher]

Ipe over Butternut

This.  Also, bloodwood over butternut.

[davisd9]

Ipe over Butternut

Played this combo off TJ's table at Unicoi last year, all I could say is that is a meat call!

[kwild835]

Mac/Butternut has killed the most birds for me.  They seem to really like Ipe/Butternut and Bloodwood/Butternut also.

[culpeper]

I'll preface this by saying that I have talked to Marlin and other guys about calls made with the same woods sounding polar opposite from each other. I have on combo that I was telling another guy about and we agreed that we both really liked it. But when I told him that I loved the different sound it had, like a hen who had smoked 2 packs a day for funny years, he was really surprised. Same call that he played was clean young hen.

Now that I have said all of that, my all walnut and Hophornbeam and Blackgum fiddles from Marlin are just plain dynamite

This is true no matter who the callmaker is.  Granted you are referencing TJ and Marlin, but any callmaker building with certain wood combos that work for them will very often get very different sound results from the same combo in 3 diff calls.  It's wood!  Now to a degree the callmaker can and usually does tune to enhance certain sound characteristics, but they will not profounding change what the tone of the wood inherently and naturally will offer.