First completed project!!!!

[Greg Curtis]

I practiced on several pieces, but this is my first complete project. It's a mahogany turkey pot call with a mahogany striker. I was very pleased considering this is the first one. It actually sounds great as well.

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[Vince Welch]

Hi Greg,
Congradulations!!! It is nice to be able to create something unique and functional.

Vince

[John Chandler]

That looks real nice. I am going to send a picture of it to my father - he will like it too.

[Bernie Weishapl]

Greg that is a beauty. I like it.

[Brian McInturff]

Sure looks nice. Don't know what they are suppose to sound like, but I like the looks of that one. Looks like you've been making them for years. Brian

[Steve Schlumpf]

Nice work Greg! Did you drill the base out using a drill press or the index function on your lathe? Nice finish - not too glossy.

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Great job for your first finished project! Beats a bonker!

[Brett Baldwin]

Looks good. Is mahogany the wood of choice for those or are there woods that give different types of turkey calls?

[John Hart]

Great job for your first finished project! Beats a bonker!

Now...with a Turkey Call, don't you need a Turkey Bonker to go with it?:confused:

Nice work Greg!:)

[Bonnie Campbell]

Very nice turkey call Greg! Now your mission is to make a call in every wood you can find ;)

[Keith Burns]

Nice call Greg ! Well executed. However when I want a turkey, I just call my wife and tell her to get onehttp://joetonich.forumup.us/images/smiles/oregonian_scram.gif (http://javascript<b></b>:emoticon('[lv]'))

[Greg Curtis]

I just drilled the holes and then smoothed the edges with a countersink bit. I'm thinking about picking up a small forstner bit so that the edges won't be so jagged. I don't know anything about an indexing function, but I'd like to. Like Bonnie said, now I want to make a call out of every kind of wood possible!!! I've been asking everyone if they know where I can get wood like a crackhead.

About the bonker.......I tried to make #2 and broke it on the lathe.:mad: :mad: I was smoothing up the bottom when it broke and went flying across the shop. Live and learn I guess:o

[Jonathon Spafford]

Nice call! Looks very good for a first project! I myself don't show folks my first stuff that I turned ;)

[Ken Fitzgerald]

Greg, Don't waste your time making a bonker. Bonkers are the first stage of getting a newby to put the tools on the toolrest and to the wood. You are way past that stage! Continue on!

[Paul Engle]

Strike it again I can't hear it :rolleyes: :D , looks good tho...:D

[Jay Drew]

I've been asking everyone if they know where I can get wood like a crackhead.


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[Dale Gregory]

Turned out great! Just curious, is it two pieces with slate inbetween? Do you just pick a hole and turn with the striker to make a sound? Not sure how that type of call works, I've only seen the type where you have a bottom and scratch a piece of slate on top. Great job! Wish my first piece turned out as nice.

Dale

[Dennis Peacock]

Congrats Greg..!!!!! Looks really nice. Must be why all the turkeys around here are heading your way. ;) :D

[Corey Hallagan]

Nice work Greg, another item on my list to do!

Corey

[Eric Wong]

It must work, I'm here.:D

Looks good!