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Turkey Call Paradise => From the Callmaker's Bench => Topic started by: mastevt on May 26, 2011, 04:08:55 PM

Title: What's your first call ya ever made?
Post by: mastevt on May 26, 2011, 04:08:55 PM

My first post got me thinking and looking, and sure enough, I got a pic of my first ever call.  Post up pics of your first ever call ya made, if ya have one that is.
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t62/Mastevt/woodworking/IMG_0058-2.jpg)
(http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t62/Mastevt/woodworking/IMG_0059.jpg)

Title: Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
Post by: Ghost Maker Calls on May 26, 2011, 04:42:05 PM

Here are the first 3 calls I made.  The first one is in a case I made out of a 1/2 sawn white birch log.  You close it up and it looks like a piece of wood.  The last is a trumpet I made with some tenon cutters I use to make log furniture.  The brown on the edge is actually the bark of the hickory branch I used. I think these were made around 2001. 

(http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj63/ghostmakercalls/MVC-011F.jpg)

(http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj63/ghostmakercalls/MVC-022F.jpg)

(http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/jj63/ghostmakercalls/MVC-025F.jpg)

Title: Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
Post by: West Augusta on May 26, 2011, 08:05:58 PM

I don't make calls but here is the link to my first striker.

http://www.osageroost.com/forums/index.php?topic=7127.0

(http://i52.tinypic.com/6hj7ty.jpg)

Title: Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
Post by: Barefoot on May 28, 2011, 10:19:46 PM

I don't remember if these were the first, but they are certainly in the first half dozen.
(http://i29.photobucket.com/albums/c280/barefoot58/Turkey%20Calls/SpaltedHackberry1.jpg)

Title: Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
Post by: ol bumpy on May 29, 2011, 08:27:40 AM

These are #1 and #2....#1 didn't sound too sparky, but #2 actually sounded pretty good. Took it to the woods on the opening of the season that year, on the youth hunt. Called this bird in for a good friend of mines son. It was his first bird, on the first morning one of my calls hit the woods....We got set up in a good spot, and it was over 5 minutes after flydown. 4 longbeards came in, and he dropped this one at 15 yards....It was a good morning.



(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t314/gobblerhitman/HITMAN%20Turkey%20Calls/001-12.jpg)

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t314/gobblerhitman/HITMAN%20Turkey%20Calls/002-12.jpg)

(http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t314/gobblerhitman/001-15.jpg)

Title: Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
Post by: mastevt on May 29, 2011, 05:57:25 PM

that is sweet!  Don't get any better than that!

Title: Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
Post by: Gitzit69 on May 30, 2011, 03:37:45 PM

Here's my first, an Amboyna Burl slate call. No lathe work, just a drill press and dremel.
(http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv322/Gitzit69/ebay018.jpg)

Title: Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
Post by: Old Geezer on May 30, 2011, 04:19:25 PM

Double glass in a flower pot saucer 1980, and a two piece wingbone from a fall hen I killed 1992.  Friend has the round, call I have the wingbone.

Ralph

Title: Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
Post by: ncturkey on June 12, 2011, 11:01:48 AM

The two peice wingbone with the lanyard and carved mushrooms was my first turkey caller I made. The musrooms were made by Larry Gresser.        (http://www.jesseshunting.com/photopost/data/500/medium/Img_0562_A.jpg)

Title: Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
Post by: misfire on June 12, 2011, 10:45:12 PM

Wish I had a picture, heck, wish I still had the call. I dont know where it went, but I made a long box out of mahogony with a maple paddle. That thing rocked. The next 50 or so werent near as good *aah*

Title: Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
Post by: S.C.C on June 13, 2011, 05:45:15 AM

First scratchbox and shortbox callers made with pocket knife and sandpaper in 1980.did make a few a couple years earlyer but these were the first fancy ones... *lol*
(http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr348/smokeyscustomcalls/firstcalls1980004.jpg)
(http://i498.photobucket.com/albums/rr348/smokeyscustomcalls/firstcalls1980003.jpg)

Title: Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
Post by: Jake St. John on June 13, 2011, 08:44:25 PM

Here is #2 about 25 years ago
(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll150/jleddleman/IMG_1689.jpg)
and notch #35 - 2010 season
(http://i287.photobucket.com/albums/ll150/jleddleman/TunicaTurkeySeason2010014.jpg)

Title: Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
Post by: West Augusta on June 13, 2011, 08:57:22 PM

Lots of hash marks on that one.
Looks good.

Title: Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
Post by: firedup on June 14, 2011, 09:10:24 PM

Dont' have any pics of real early calls / the first call. It was a poplar glued up body with a cherry lid tho.   Basically a glued up simple hunting call.  I did find a few pics of early calls tho. Once I finally got a little more serious about call building I started trying to keep better track of things.
You guys are way to serious. Here is a call a I knocked together while waiting on a hunting buddy early one morning.  20 minutes work tops.  *peep* I wrote on it "The ugly box...first box to kill with sight AND sound" *lol* 1997 I think it says.

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a297/ltpack/calls/CIMG0454.jpg)

Here is another batch of calls from mid-late '90's maybe. 
(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a297/ltpack/calls/turkey%20calls/boxcalls3.jpg)

Title: Re: What's your first call ya ever made?
Post by: trb136 on June 14, 2011, 09:55:07 PM

Here is my first box ever, Bocote and Osage   what the heck was i thinking.... *lol*

(http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv152/trb136/bocote1.jpg)
(http://i679.photobucket.com/albums/vv152/trb136/bocote.jpg)