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Now comes the part of reaming out the center of the call.   I use my $13 air die grinder from Harbor freight with a 1/2 inch rasp in it.   It took me slightly less than 3 minutes to ream out this call.  I thougth it would be hard to keep it even all the way around, but it wasnt as bad as I thought, and it was pretty easy to keep the wall thickness even.  I ream out both the mouthpiece and the bell end up to the line I cut with the lathe tool at a funny angle earlier.


 


Then I put on a couple coats of laquer after a little bit of hand sanding around the reamed holes.


 


Once the finish is dry, I epoxy the reed sleeve in, and drop the reed in the sleeve.


Not the best way to make a call,  /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif  but with my limited tools it works, and I doubt the critters will know the difference.


I hope I helped somebody else like this forum has helped me.   /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/bowingsmilie.gif  And the best part is I started with 10 fingers  and ended with 10 fingers.   /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-003.gif


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