Another duck call

[armyturner]

Here is how I spent part of my morning. I have been wanting to turn a duck call from a piece of clear acrylic for a while and finally got around to it. It has a modified Echo poly insert.

 

[arjudy]

That's great. How do polish the inside of the call blank?

 

[armyturner]

Finishing the inside is the most time consuming part of making the call. I drill the blank on the lathe. While it is still mounted in the chuck, I use a 8" or so piece of 1/2" delrin with a slit cut in it to hold sand paper and wet sand the inside from 220-1000 grit. I then use the delrin to hold pieces of paper towel and polish the inside with Novus 2, 3, and HUT plastic polish.

 

[R2]

That is neat![] My high schoolwwodwork teacher used to tell of how they polish Perspex (acrylic?) with jewellers' rouge to get a really high gloss finish.

 

[jwoodwright]

Nice call.

 

[Turkhunter]

Jeremy you do know how to turn acrylic, very nice job. Turkhunter

 

[arjudy]

How do you price your game calls?

 

[armyturner]

I price them about the same way that I price pens, price of materials x 3 + some extra for my time (give or take for the market).

 

[arjudy]

Do you offer calls for sale on your website. I would like to start collecting calls and yours are top notch.

 

[MDWine]

Nice polish there!
Are you modifying the tone board, or the reed?
I'm gearing up for calls myself. I'm definitely moving up to Echo inserts next, and may even get a public jig and try the toneboards... I'm not the serious kind of call turner! (gotta be careful with that "custom call maker" phrase)

 

[armyturner]

Michael,

I like the sound of the toneboard. What I do is mount it in a chuck and turn it down and reshape it.