This one has been in the works for about 3 months. I found some nice buckeye burl and shipped it off for stabilizing. The piece I originally planned to turn for him... well, lets just say I blew that one... it was incredible... just before I got my gouge in too deep and ripped a chunk out of the side...AAAHHHHHH!!!! This one was the second try. I'll be assembling it this weekend. The buyer is a service member stationed in Afghanistan. He ordered a couple of other calls shortly before Christmas. He liked those so well, he just had to have one of the buckeye burl calls after seeing a picture of one I made a couple of years back. I quoted him $120, as I hadn't been able to find nice buckeye burl in some time. I also have 4 shipping charges involved in the blanks from purchase to shipping to customer, as well as $11 per pound of wood in stabilizing. I hope he likes it. I do have one more blank of this wood... just in case.
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:o wow thats a beauty!!!
That is a pretty pc of wood.He will like it.
Bobby
That is one BEAUTIFUL piece of wood ,you can almost see the faces of all the turkeys that thing has in it !!!!
Wendell, my friend, that is one stunning call! One of, if not the, finest I've ever seen posted here on OG!
-Derick
Wow, that's a great piece of wood. Great call.... :z-guntootsmiley:
Wendell, words can't explain that call. "WOW". :icon_thumright:
Thats an awesome looking call Wendell, I think he will like that!!
Nice lets hope it works out and he gets it, should be a life time heirloom to hand down in the family.
WOW! Super figure in that piece of wood. :happy0064:
Wendell, that is one of the prettiest calls I think I have ever seen. You give me a little time and we are going to hook up. I have always wanted one of your pots. I love those laminates that you recently done as well. Do you have anymore of that there feathercrotch walnut that you made on that laminate call that was so pretty?
Very nice :icon_thumright:
Awesome. I hope it talks as good as it looks. Great job. Rodd Gunn
Awesome looking wood, what surface will be in that bad boy??
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Quote from: doepee on February 11, 2011, 10:09:52 AM
Awesome looking wood, what surface will be in that bad boy??
It's going to be black anodized aluminum. It will have a santos zebra dymondwood striker (orange and charcoal alternate layers) as he already has one of my charcoal silvertone strikers (solid charcoal layers). I'll be sure to post a finsihed picture with a report on the sound.
Beautiful work Wendell :you_rock:
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Hey that looks kinda familiar......(http://i38.photobucket.com/albums/e119/birdhunter50613/Guns%20and%20Calls/P1040532.jpg)
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Buckyeye burl is some of the prettiest wood there is. Great looking call!!
Awesome looking caller.
Quote from: bird on February 11, 2011, 01:25:42 PM
Hey that looks kinda familiar......
That's the one that started it all. He saw a picture of your call and had to have one.
That is a beautiful call.
Wendell, that is top shelf for sure! :icon_thumright:
I keep coming back to this one looking at it. That is an amazing bit of creation.
I had to come back and look again at this call. :z-winnersmiley:
Beautiful call Wendell!! :happy0064:
Thanks all for the comments. Looks like Ghillie is going to be the owner of the other buckeye call. The anodized aluminum sounds great in the call. It has a medium pitch with some serious rasp on the back of the yelps. It sounds like a more mature hen with something serious on her mind. ;D
Good grief that call is sweet. I hate you Wendell! and so does my wife!! LOL I am going to have to get one of those bad boys sometime. Really good looking call.
Awesome looking call!! :you_rock:
Stunner right there
Just Stunning Wendell :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:
That my friend is an absolute gorgeous piece.
If for some reason Ghillie backs out of the other burl, I will take it.
Wendell, absolutely beautiful pot caller. I like what you said about the expenses involved with it, some folks just do not realize what it takes sometimes to produce high end and high quality work. I still have that Black Ash Burl blanks for ya, gonna have to send them your way before you forget how to turn...... :TooFunny: pappy
Quote from: tegfan on February 16, 2011, 12:31:04 AM
oh my those you put in a glass case never to be used, just awsome.
Oh heck no..... Gotta get blood on them. Otherwise whats the sense of having them!
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Quote from: scturkeyhunter on February 15, 2011, 09:52:19 AM
If for some reason Ghillie backs out of the other burl, I will take it.
Sorry man....but no way is that gonna happen...Wendell makes some beauties...and when I read that he had an extra bank of this wood...well...lets just say an email was sent in prolly the same minute!! I had looked at that call he made for Bird years back and asked if there was more....at that time he was out.... but I did make another selection back then...and I keep coming back...
I am so psyched about this call...I have seen one pic of it just after it was turned...no finish on it...WOW...it has as Wendell describes it so well...a turtle shell look to it...can't wait to see the finished result!!
Take a look at the work in progress...
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WOW. Very nice looking calls. God bless.
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That is one BEAUTIFUL piece of wood. :you_rock: