Kenny Morgan calls

[strutnrut]

I thought that some of you might like seeing these. I got them from Mr. Morgan back on 2005 down in Mississippi when we did a seminar at a college. The call on the left is a amplifier used with a mouth call.  Later that month he sent me down a path of building a trumpet call. He got a wingbone from me and told me I needed to build a trumpet said just start 1\8, 2\8th to 3\8th now all you have to do is figure out how deep to drill them. That was 10 years ago. How time flies by.

[CMBOSTC]

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

Chris

[SS Calls]

 Some dandy calls Richard!

[WillowRidgeCalls]

Thanks for posting this Richard. I've got a friend that lived next door to Kenny. Kenny taught him how to build wingbones. He has a few of everyone of the calls Kenny ever built in his collection. Would love to see those calls!!!

[hunter22]

Great calls Richard.

[Clardh]

Do any of you gentleman know why the friction wood call hasn't really taken off? When I watched Mr. Morgan play his, it's phenomenal. The video someone posted of Mr. Morgan playing his calls ( tube, friction wood, scratcher and trumpet) is just amazing. His is truly a legend.

[hotspur]

I like the sound of that scratch call

[WillowRidgeCalls]

Do any of you gentleman know why the friction wood call hasn't really taken off? When I watched Mr. Morgan play his, it's phenomenal. The video someone posted of Mr. Morgan playing his calls ( tube, friction wood, scratcher and trumpet) is just amazing. His is truly a legend.

My guess the main reason is moisture, a slate has a similar problem but no as bad. A raw wood surface suck up moisture like a sponge and when you have to add chalk to it, it makes it worse so you have to be careful and baby them a little. Most people don't like something you have to baby. A wood surface will produce a better sounding call. BUT... It's kind of like an unfinished box call, it sounds better, but you have to baby it.

[strutnrut]

Mr. Kenny told me that he got the idea while turkey hunting and when these two trees rubbed together a turkey would gobble. As for Mr. Kenny running a call. I think the man could call a turkey with two rocks. If I would have know I was going to have to follow him I would have cancelled.  But Mr. Kenny was as down to earth as anyone I ever meet.
The amplifier is used to project the sound of a mouth call and it does work. I haven't used it in the woods because I call to loud most of the time anyways.  One sie of the frictionwood has osage. Osage is very hard and produce a good sound.

[Clardh]

Do any of you gentleman know why the friction wood call hasn't really taken off? When I watched Mr. Morgan play his, it's phenomenal. The video someone posted of Mr. Morgan playing his calls ( tube, friction wood, scratcher and trumpet) is just amazing. His is truly a legend.

My guess the main reason is moisture, a slate has a similar problem but no as bad. A raw wood surface suck up moisture like a sponge and when you have to add chalk to it, it makes it worse so you have to be careful and baby them a little. Most people don't like something you have to baby. A wood surface will produce a better sounding call. BUT... It's kind of like an unfinished box call, it sounds better, but you have to baby ituote]
I thought it might be the moisture then I thought of box calls. I tell you, the moment I buy a friction wood, you can bet it will be the wettest spring we had in years.