Baseball Bat Turpin Caller

[shadetree callers]

Here's a Turpin caller I made out of an antique baseball bat given to me by my neighbor , Miss annie Hull age 79. She brought the bat to me along with another that she and her siblings would knock rocks around with and asked if I could make a turkey caller with them  . She got the bat around 1940, and played with it on the farm she was raised on near Dayton, Ohio. I added some scraps to round it out and she came out nice . The lid is redheart and the base is made of old barn chestnut and some ipe recovered from the coney island pier. She has that classic Turpin "bark" , yelps easy with nice clucks and purrs . Even has a little gobble in her . Thanks for looking !
Bob

[culpeper]

Well I'll be darn, a fine looking call it is and for me I was fortunate to hear this call today and to my ears it sounds as good as it looks.  I like the notion that us callmakers, frugal that we are, have the foresight and skills to turn and old, but not fully used up clunk of wood into a fine instrument like a turkey call.  That also must be one of the nicest hunks of ash I have ever seen.

[Rope]

Dang,Bob,you amaze me sometimes. Great recycled bat.

[TRKYHTR]

Thats awesome Bob. If that bat could only tell the story of where it's been.

TRKYHTR

[Spring Creek Calls]

That's as fine a call as I've seen, congratulations!

[Onpoint]

You call makers amaze me. Id love to get into makin calls. I'm afraid if I did that's where all my time would go. That's awesome. Great work

[coyote1]

Nice looking call!  That was a scrap piece of lumber put to good use.

[outdoors]

RECYCLING AT ITS BEST     

[strutnrut]

Great Job Bob
That old bat had some tight grain to it didn't it. Very nice call, bet she is tickled.

[Gawhitaker]

That is an awesome box, very nice!

[trkycaller]

very nice!

[barry]

Thats awesome Bob. If that bat could only tell the story of where it's been.

TRKYHTR

That's what I was thinking!

[DirtNap647]

that is amazing

[M,Yingling]

Nice one ,,, 

[WillowRidgeCalls]

Super job on that old bat Bob.