Originally posted by ozmandus
<br />Lee,
Duck calls are one of my favorite projects.. don't worry about the design.. they are more or less free form anyway. Who did you use for a kit supplier.. I normally use HUT for their reeds.. or did you do the reed holder inside as well.. I usually just use the kit reed, but I want to try to cut my own reeds soon... just not sure about spending $180 for a jig to shape the reed holder.(wrong terminology, can't think of proper name right now.. )
I bought the reed kit from CSUSA. I actually bought three different reed kits to see which one sounded best. Then I bought three more single reed metal because that one sounded best on the DC above. However, I made a second call out of purple heart and with the single reed metal, it sound very different. I then changed the reed from the one DC that is posted here and put it in the purple heart and it also sounds different there.
Saying this in different terms. The purple heart has a double resonance and higher pitch; the Zebra Wood has a lower pitch and single resonance, even when switching the reeds.
QUESTION:
Am I learning something that is common among duck calls that I was not aware of? They ARE different shaped on the outside but the insides and lengths are exactly the same.
MODIFICATION:
I am about to modify the above DC by adding a brass ring to it. The Zebra Wood is laminated and I am afraid that seasonal changes in temp and humidity, in conjunction with the pressure from the inserted part will cause too much expansion at the glue joints and damage it in a year or two.
PART 2: I know the feeling of not remember the proper names for words. Age and not using words as often as I used to causes me to have lots of senior moments. Been doing woodworking of and on since I was a kid in the 50's, but can't tell you the number of joint and cut terminology words I can't remember, and I still do woodworking quite a bit.
