Introducing the new "TT" versatile call -- The "Double Taker"

Playing around with designs and wood choices.

Knotty Cedar and Cherry/Banksia Seed Pod:

I don't like the bells on these...

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Maple Burl and Laminated Spalted Maple.
The laminated call is 4 pieces laminated in a whiskey barrel fashion.

Getting closer to what I'm looking for...

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Aromatic Cedar and Maple Burl/Walnut laminate.

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I took this little Maple Burl/Walnut laminate call out this morning for a test drive and made 4 stands. Had no takers, but by the response of the crows, jays, and hawks, it was hitting the right tune.

Thanks for looking...Tony
 
Tony
You must never sleep or you just stay home or at work and make calls. I do not know what wood that spalted call was made out of, but that Spalted call is one great looking call.
 
I'm with Buckwheat,, I like that spalted maple and the burl with it as well.The balance of those two is really good.

Problem with calls like this is where do you want the eye to focus.The embelishments we put in turned items are what do this. The burned lines or grooves take the eye to where we put them.The first two draw the eyes all over and back.Especially the banksia seed pod combo with all those little holes, the eye is on the pod and not the barrel.If you use two woods in the call such as maple barrel and a walnut keg the eye is drawn to the maple automatically.

When we look at a THO call our eyes are drawn straight to the brass band and the pleasing rounded shape next to it.Kind of like a womans waist line and hips /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grinning-smiley-006.gif

You decide where you want the eye to go /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gifJimmie
 
Great insight Jimmie. I never really though about it. This is going to greatly help when wanting to 'balance' a call out.

I figured one thing out. Brass rings definately have a purpose. Friction fit calls put a stress on wood when fitting together. Especially in a vertically laminated call. I believe I may have to incorporate a ring, as I've cracked 4 barrels already. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif

Ernie, I build calls everyday. Well, every night after work. Today I've got to focus on some howlers, as I've got a bunch of orders needing filled.

Thanks guys...Tony
 
Barrel design can help a great deal with the splitting. A more square end will help a great deal.Not saying you can't round the end but it needs to be a bit more blunt.

Wood has certain properties and when we ignore or try to cheat those properties we get into trouble designing just about anything. The thinner that end is the easier for the wedge affect to begin a crack.Wood really wants to split along the grain. Making them out of cedar will teach you this faster than any other wood you use because it is really brittle along the grain, more so than any wood you will use.

The longer the taper on the keg will help too.More gradual so that it starts easy and slowly gets tighter until it stops.One that abruptly stops is most likely to split a barrel.It's kind of like the two splitting maul designs for busting firewood. One is v shaped while the other starts like an axe head and gradually widens.The V with its heavy head splits abruptly while the other style takes a whack or two to open the split. Jimmie
 
Has anyone ever tried persimmon. I cut down a tree and did some research on it. Learned they use it to make phyfes (sp?You know the little flutes played with drums.)and drum sticks with it becouse it's hard. It's been laying a year now.I noticed some tiny piles of saw dust on the bark like something is boring in it. Might make for neat looking wood. I dont know. GAJoe
 
Yes Georgia Joe it has been tried and done beautifully by at least one duck call maker and at least one turkey pot call of what they call wormy persimon like yours recently. It needs to be milled into blocks some how real soon or it will have problems holding air for back pressure.Milling it gets rid of the moisture the borers thrive on.It can also have some great spalting patterns in it.I have a spalted root burl but I think the borers have done to much damage to it for enclosed reed calls.

Persimon was also used for piano keys and Golf clubs because it is such a hard wood.It is a cheaper form of ebony from africa when died the right color.The market for persimon is all but gone with the advent of more modern materials.Any of you remember those beautiful drivers with wooden heads? Jimmie
 
Just wanted to keep ya'll up-to-date on the progress of this call. I've turned a few more bodies and bells and working on the the friction fit design. I've recieved quite a few request for these calls, so I appreciate your patience on these.

I had a setback on building calls, as I drilled a hole in my index finger with a 1/4 drill bit, last week. After I got the bleeding to stop, I bandaged it up and went back to building. An hour later, a piece of delrin got binded up in the drill press and spun. It proceeded to take a chunk of my middle finger with it...on the same hand! I stopped building for a while, until healed.

The biggest requests are for wild cherry burl and buckeye burl calls. These are two very limited woods and I'm doing the best I can on getting this wood. I have a small stock of it and making my final changes to the prototype before turning them, as it's only a one shot deal on a blank.

As far as function, I've made 8 different calling sets with a couple of these calls. It performed very well and I am pleased with the sound. Getting into coyotes has been another issue. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif Typical of Iowa.

For those of you that have placed orders for these, again, I appreciate your patience on these. I want to ensure you will get the best wood call that I can build.

Thanks...Tony
 
Tony, sorry to hear about your mishap. Hope you heal up soon. Puts a whole new twist to a Bloodwood Call now doesn't it ??

Here is a little tool that I use to drill center holes in delrin and other materials. It runs around 40 bucks and is available from Woodcraft and other Pen Maker supply companies. It is called a Pen Makers Center Drilling Vice. It clamps to your drill press table and holds what ever you want to put in it up to a block of wood 1 1/2 by 1 1/2.

Just a thoght to help same some fingers.

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