200 year old heart pine, what to do?

[Meleagris gallopavo]

My niece finally tore down an old house that had been on our property for 200 years or so.  She saved as much of the lumber as possible, which are beams and foundation sills.  Most pieces are large, heavy and have a few of the old flat iron blacksmith nails.  My plan is to have some calls made from this wood for my son, nephews and a cousin or two.  I've contacted 2 pot call makers and 1 box call maker already.  I have a good local duck call maker.  My question for the group is who would be good to make calls from this wood and what would you use this wood for?  Smallest pieces are 4" thick and one of the main seals is closer to 12" square (and about 20' long).  I can see the center rings of the heart on the ends of all the pieces.


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[Yoder409]

Pretty sure that it was Mike Lapp that just did an amazing 3-call match set of boxes from heart pine.

[Tom007]

I think the call makers would love to have it. I have a Jimmy Schaefer Heartwood Pine Glass pot that sounds amazing. The grain is super tight/dense.....

[shatcher]

I also have a heart pine pot from Jimmy Schaefer that came from a pre-civil war home in Georgia.  Made an excellent call.

[Meleagris gallopavo]

I think the call makers would love to have it. I have a Jimmy Schaefer Heartwood Pine Glass pot that sounds amazing. The grain is super tight/dense.....

This stuff is like that.  Heavy too.


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[West Augusta]

Jeff White has made a short box out of heart pine and I have made strikers from it.    It works well for turkey calls.

[highball]

Albert Paul is making some box calls out of heart pine.

[aclawrence]

This is interesting timing as I just came into possession of some old pine myself today. This came out of a house built in 1897.  I'm planning to turn it into a kitchen table soon but I'm sure I'll have some left over.


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[Bedge7767]

Here's the calls and the striker that was made for me from my Heart Pine.  Trumpet and Pot Call by Mr Bob Buckner. The striker was made by Steve Torman and the Box was made by Jeff White. Pine makes a fine call.

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[3bailey3]

Dang Jim, you got some good stuff!!

[Bedge7767]

Dang Jim, you got some good stuff!!

Thank you.

[Meleagris gallopavo]

Here's the calls and the striker that was made for me from my Heart Pine.  Trumpet and Pot Call by Mr Bob Buckner. The striker was made by Steve Torman and the Box was made by Jeff White. Pine makes a fine call.

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That's what I'm planning to do with mine.  Have several types of calls made.


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[Meleagris gallopavo]

Here's some of it.



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[Meleagris gallopavo]

Another piece.


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[Bedge7767]

That's a big piece.

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