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Turkey Calls => Mouth Call Making Discussion => Topic started by: Jbird22 on April 01, 2016, 11:31:54 AM

Title: Proph
Post by: Jbird22 on April 01, 2016, 11:31:54 AM
When building a call that has a latex top reed over two proph (.0025) reeds do you typically stretch with less tension than a call that's all latex? I'm not looking for anyone to tell me the number just a better idea of where to start.
Title: Re: Proph
Post by: Lonehowl on April 01, 2016, 11:34:09 AM
Depends on what you like, for me, I do typically stretch a bit less for that setup.
Mark
Title: Re: Proph
Post by: Jbird22 on April 01, 2016, 01:12:41 PM
Thanks Mark
Title: Re: Proph
Post by: GobbleNut on April 01, 2016, 04:27:23 PM
I agree.  I put very little tension in secondary proph reed material.  For me, putting much tension in those reeds seems to make the front-end break-over on yelps more difficult, as well as have too high a pitch.  It also gives clucks/cuts, and most other calls, too high a pitch, in my opinion. 

It would be interesting to hear from others on this to see if anybody thinks otherwise. 
Title: Re: Proph
Post by: Gooserbat on April 03, 2016, 02:24:38 PM
I like a lighter stretch as well.
Title: Re: Proph
Post by: TRKYHTR on April 06, 2016, 11:46:29 PM
Not really.
Title: Re: Proph
Post by: rblake on May 21, 2016, 11:26:40 AM
I assume you are achieving different tensions by hand. I have a Feather Ridge and would interested to hear if anyone has a technique to consistently achieve different tensions.