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Offline Gitzit69

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Push Pins
« on: April 05, 2014, 10:12:40 PM »
Any of you guys ever made any? I know there's no market for it and I'm sure it's not worth the effort but I'm looking to do something different than pots and trumpets. I ordered one 2 years ago from this YAHOO call maker and he blew me off because he thought I was just wanting to copy his.  *wha* It can't be that hard, so I figure I'll just make my own.
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Offline mikey715

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Re: Push Pins
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2014, 01:15:52 PM »
I'm sure it will be a good one Dave!! *up* *up*

Offline Austy

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Re: Push Pins
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2014, 09:16:58 PM »
I recently had a friend ask me to make a Custom Push Pin Call for his mother so I thought it can't be that hard, sure why not!!!!!!!!  Man was I ever wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.  I have more hours into this one call than I care to mention and my hat is off to those who have mastered making and TUNING this style of call.  It took me a few hours just to get the call to start making a sound and it still doesn't even sound close to a turkey.  I'm in the same boat as you as far as the learning curve on how to make this style call.  The call that I am working on Now the box portion is one solid piece of Figured Birch.  I THINK that the key components to these calls is the sound board which is the bottom of the call that the striker attaches to and how thick, or should I say thin it is.  My call is starting to sound a little better a little at a time as I thin out the bottom of the call.  Like you, I have never made any of these before and they are sure time consuming and challenging to say the least.  Good luck.

Offline lonnielou688

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Re: Push Pins
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2014, 09:31:22 AM »
I have some where the "floor" of the box is sooo thin, paper thin, that they are starting to crack where the screw goes through into the pyramid cone. Of course some of these are well over 25 years old, and some of them have been hunted, before and after I received them, which is no shame by any means. I have never seen one crafted from a solid piece of wood, so you may be on to something there, but it is hard to imagine that you will get the floor thin enough, with out blowing right through it. I have often thought too that they would be allful time consuming to build, even if it was done by pieces. I like to hunt them though, you buildem', I'll huntem', accepting all prototypes for a field test.                             ;D   *gobble* ;D
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