Playing surfaces ?

[wisconsinteacher]

I am trying to make a list of surfaces.  Here is what I can think of what am I missing?

slate, glass, crystal, aluminum, copper, bronzed glass, ceramic

I would love to get a custom call in every surface someday.  I have slate, aluminum, and soon a bronzed glass. 

[merocustomcalls]

There's corian and titanium, but they're not very common.  Call makers through the years have experimented with all sorts of surfaces. 

[WillowRidgeCalls]

Wood also, not very many out there, but a few still use it.

[Old Gobbler]

My father used to make a wicked wood top pot call - it can be done

[stone road turkey calls]

Brass also, rare but used.

[870BkWht]

I  saw one made from Agate, although it might have been more for show.  Im not sure who made it, but it was a nice orignial kind of call that I had not ever seen before.

[West Augusta]

Art of Ishi and Harmonden both use Agate, Obsidian and various other types of stone as striking surfaces.

[MarkJM]

In my opinion, All you need to make the best turkey call is glass, slate, and aluminum. I just cant justify spending 5 dollars on a piece of copper or brass just to use as a surface. I think you can get just as good as sound if not better out of glass or slate.

[Jacobson]

Mark,

Some surfaces like copper are for a caller to reach 15,000 Hz . They will not sound more realistic than slate for example, but in allot of cases will induce a gobble when other calls will not. I would not go turkey hunting without one.....

[lightsoutcalls]

I felt the same way about copper being too high ($$$) in the past.  I had more people ask for them so I messed around with them again and found a sound I really liked with an osage striker for louder calling and a cedar striker for softer calling.  You really can produce a completely different sound with copper.  I'm not saying it is a better sound than the surfaces you mentioned, just different.

[pappy]

I've made with all these mentioned, different metals do create different sounds, but like Mark and Wendell said, it produces a sound that attracts a gobbler, something different in its volume and pitch that raise their head every time, ask other callers who have been successful with them, as far as titanium, you simply won't find a better and realistic sound without digging a trench through the pot. The only thing, it is so expensive a hard to cut, it makes for a pricy call, I have made around a dozen and got great reports with them all, except for one, and it was - in my opinion - the user getting used to the difference in the materials and how to apply the right pressure to the striking surface, because when I got the call back, it played great, but I knew how to handle it. I have made calls using Agate Quartz. a real high pitched call, nice looking, but didn't like the sound, but..............I make what the customer wants, and that's what any call maker should do.