From another thread..........
Quote from: PEte_A on January 19, 2019, 06:18:40 PM
Quote from: paboxcall on January 19, 2019, 05:52:16 PM
A 3.25" glass/glass in cherry I made, and the Perfection Screamin' Demon II in a corian pot. A very, very close 3rd place photo finish is Tuscarora Mountain Jake Taker slate/glass.
So jealous of this! I would love to have made one of my favorite calls. I've never made one, but maybe some day!
Curious to see the pot calls made by other "non-callmaker" callmakers...........
I've hacked out a few pot calls over the years with some pretty primitive methods. But I eventually figured out how to, at least, make them SOUND like a turkey. My fit and finish lacks. But the friction call I have carried 100% of the time for the last 20-ish years is a walnut slate over glass that I made. Kinda satisfying feeling.
Here's a couple I did from years back.............
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Post some home made gobbler killers up !!! :)
I have made a few walnut slate / slate pots. The homemade call that I have carried 100% of the time for many years is a cut slate with hand carved strikers. Truly a turkey killer.
Love the hand carved strikers !!!
I always bring some limb chunks home from hunting trips out of my home area.......cedar, mesquite, native plum, stuff I don't even know what it is but looks like it'll make a good striker......... :D
Curious to see the pot calls made by other "non-callmaker" callmakers...........
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I am working on one but won't be able to finish right away. One of those kit deals. I will post it when done.
As a teen I did a lot of wood working. Even worked in a custom cabinet making shop during high school. I'm so tempted to get a lathe and spin up some pots!!!
It's a pretty satisfying past time.
I'm hoping to get a shop set up in my garage within a couple years. I've never run a lathe in my life. But I'm thinking about getting one and seeing what happens.
Here are a few of mine, it's just a hobby, I used to make some for sale but now mostly for myself and friends. I don't have any fancy duplicator or lazer engraver just a small lathe, drill press and band saw.
It's really great fun and very satisfying calling in birds with your own calls.
Oh and they sound good too.
RW
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VERY impressive, sir !!!
Don't have a lathe or anything, maybe one day. But here is a striker I carved from a piece of cedar. Do you guys put any kind of finish on your strikers or just keep them natural?
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I've never put any finish on my natural, carved ones.
I did all of my two-piece, dowel strikers in polyurethane.