My sister wanted me to make a call for a friend in New York. They were on a group trip to Italy and found out this guy hunts ducks, so....

It's from a nice stick of bird's eye maple my brother sent me years ago and some ebony with an acrylic toneboard. Sounds like a duck too.






Also had our annual hunters lunch a couple weeks back. We had around 100 people for a great lunch with red deer steaks and all kinds of other stuff, plus the usual fermented grape juice they like here. You can tell the guy in the red shirt is telling a fishing story.


And one picture of my recent trip about 3 hours south of here on the Mediterranean to fish for tuna with a hunting friend, (the guy in the red shirt). No tuna for us, but we got lots of mackerel. Two days after I left he got two tuna around 120-130 pounds.


All from the eastern front.

Pete

What kinds of tuna you got in the Med Pete? Beautiful work on that call btw.

Nice workmanship. Anyone would be happy to have that piece of work

There are bluefin and albacore. The fishing is in decline like lots of places and strictly regulated.

Pete

If that call was mine it would not go out of the house-----especially on good rainy duck weather. Beautiful work there.....jk

Nice call

Very nice duck call Pete , I've got a soft spot for birds eye maple ! The fishing trip sounds fun anyway catching fish is just a bonus !

Good to hear from you Swift. Glad you are doing well. Looks great as usual. Glad all is well on the Eastern Front.

Very nice looking duck call. Good wood turning is always nice to look at.

Great job on the call.

jk....

For years now I use a super glue finish on the calls. & or 8 layers and then you polish it down til it looks like glass. I've had guys tell me the ebony finished like that looks like black plastic. They can take whatever nature dishes out for years.

Unfortunately for box calls, a durable finish lilke marine varnish kills the sound to some extent, so the acrylic spray varnish helps protect them without losing sound, but a few drizzly turkey hunts will leave some spots on the wood.

Now back to the checkering on my stock. The mallard call was a nice break.

Pete

Work of art , Pete.

Swift
Thats pretty nice looking work.
I have several custom calls that were made for me by my brother in law.
I don't intentionally abuse any of them. I do consider all my calls working calls. Don't have any just in box on wall like some of his customers.

Mac

Wow ! Nice seeing you, Pete.

Mac...

30 years ago I bought a reelfoot style call from a good call maker. He asked me if I was going to hunt with it or was I a collector? I told him it was for hunting. He laughed and said if it was for a collector he didn't need to drill a hole in it.

We had a good laugh.

Pete