Osage Roost
Turkey Call Paradise => From the Callmaker's Bench => Topic started by: mahoganymann on January 24, 2016, 09:41:31 PM
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Well its been a long weekend working on calls.. Tried a few combo I hadn't had the kahonas to try.. Well you gotta pony up sometimes! I only ruined 3 blanks before I dialed in.. I say dialed in.. you can be the judge. I don't have anything to compare it to so... kinda flying blind! ..... This is a cedar on cedar paddle call.. Not sure i like it or mostly not sure if I did it right!
Click the below link to listen:
https://soundcloud.com/steve-brown-261/first-cedar-on-cedar
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Steve, You say you don,t have anything to compare it to. Well do what I did about twenty years ago and get recordings of live wild turkeys doing their thing. I had a cassette recording of Spittin Feathers by Mike Beatty. Everything from young hens to old hens, young gobblers to old ones. Then imitate those sounds with your calls. I listened to that cassette so much, I wore it and the tape player out. I just goggled it up and he has a new version in CD. Best advise I can give to a new callmaker. Etch that sound in your brain and let your calls imitate the Real Thing whether it be hen or gobbler, young or old. Mr. E
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What Mr. E said, Steve. The sound is somewhere there in almost any wood but you need that sound ingrained in your old noodle!
Also, I noticed that you used all heart wood, or it looks like you did. That is good. I have found with scratch boxes that a white and red mixed piece of cedar is hard to tune. I think that is because as you tune the call you are constantly changing the ratio of sapwood to heartwood. Then again maybe it is just my imagination. I have tons of cedar that people have brought me but I rarely build a cedar call!