Favorite Wood Combo for Box Calls?

[Premier Turkey Calls]

What is your favorite wood combo for box calls based on sound quality? Include which wood is for the box and which wood is for the paddle.

[mgm1955]

I'm not a callmaker but really like yellowheart lid with black limba box or bloodwood lid with either black limba or butternut for the box.

[Spur806]

I like maple over walnut, and also pecan over cherry

[Spring Creek Calls]

Bloodwood over e.r. cedar or Brazilian cherry over black walnut.

[29810434]

Walnut over cedar does it for me.

[WillowRidgeCalls]

In a short box---Sassafras over Cedar
Long box--- Canary over Butternut--Maple over Limba

[M Sharpe]

Short box....walnut over mahogany, Lynch didn't make millions of them just because....(old hen sound)

Long box....cedar over butternut. Wait a minute, bloodwood over butternut.....or cedar or maple over poplar, wait cedar over walnut....just make 'em and they'll sell!!!

[29810434]

Walnut over cedar

[boatpaddle]

S/B....Persimmon over Mineral stained poplar

     L/B.....Osage over butternut or osage over stika spruce or cedar over walnut or walnut over mineral stained poplar or.....ah, never mind...

[silverspur]

I am a big Yellowheart over Black limba fan also Yellowheart and or maple over min stain popular

[SS Calls]

 Whichever one the gobbler is liking on any given day.  And it sure ain't the same every time.

[hunter22]

Whichever one the gobbler is liking on any given day.  And it sure ain't the same every time.

You are exactly right Al.

[firedup]

True enuff that nothing works ALL the time. There are so many proven combo's out there. But I guess I am just "old school"...ya just can't beat a good walnut or cherry lid on a good piece of poplar or butternut.  Mix em how ya want, they are usually solid.   

[davisd9]

Whichever one the gobbler is liking on any given day.  And it sure ain't the same every time.

Agreed!!!!

If you are making me choose then Jatoba over holly.




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[strutnrut]

Hen box Teak with a Snake Wood paddle but Macassar over Holly  or Bloodwood over Walnut both make a good combo.  I have a short box Al built with Bloodwood over Mineral Poplar that is simply badass.