Bought some calls from brookside

[turkeykiller22]

I bought some calls from brookside to mess with, and I read somewhere that I will need to sand down the calls down. Is this true? and if so how much?

Thanks for the help

[WillowRidgeCalls]

It's hard to tell without seeing them and knowing what sound your looking for or what surfaces your using?

[turkeykiller22]

Looking for a clean high front end with high raspy tail end. I read calls usually need to be around 1/8th of an inch thick and these are 1/4 inch thick. Using glass surface. Can I put the sound board and surface in and call on it? Or will I need to glue it? If I glue it can I try it before the glue sets and if I dont like it remove it?

Sorry for all the questions!

[WildSpur]

I just sanded mine to make them pretty.  They sounded good enough to kill birds and call them in.  My go-to now is a padauk ceramic over glass from their parts.

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[turkeykiller22]

One of m professors has a shop with 4 or 5 lathes in it and she said she would show me how to use them. I figured I would go out to her shop this weekend and mess around on them and get a feel for everything. Any advice before hand would be great!