[BIRD CHIRPING]
[MUSIC]
What I want to do this morning is talk a little bit about actually making a box call and what's involved, where you start, what you do and everything.
And box call is just simply as it's described it's a box and it's the old squeaking door process to get the sound
[BOX CALL NOISE]
That's what you're looking to hear,
It's basically two parts, you've got the body of the call which is the box which is the hollow out piece of wood.
And then you've got the top which is the paddle
And it's attached to the box and rubbed across the top to get the sound
What we're gonna do is we're gonna actually start out this morning with a just a plain block of wood.
We're gonna get milled down to those particular specs.
Use several different tools to do that, obviously a chop saw which is behind me here to cut it off at the proper length.
Planer to get it milled down to the correct width
From there we'll end up with a block that looks basically like this.
First I'll use the drill press to take the inside the rough part of the inside of this out.
I'll put this block in this jig and take that plunge router and set the depth through the quarter inch depth in the bottom that I wanted to have.
Then once I've gotten to that point I'll switch over to a 5 degree tapered plunge router bit that I use to take the wood out of the sides.
Then from that point I'll go over to the table saw and I will set the blade on the table saw at a 5 degree, everything on this call is 5 degrees.
I will turn it upside down and run it through there and it'll make that cut along the side there.
Then I come over here and I use a chisel and this little protection guide right here,
Which basically I'll put it down in that groove to protect the actual what will be the finished side of the outer call to take the chisel and work this that extra wood off.
Then I will mark the sides with a ruler, mark 1/8 of an inch down on each end,
And from there I go over to the bench sander and I sand down each end
Once I get each end sanded down to that mark then I rock it to get the curvature in it.
I'll start with the dremel with that little drum sander,
I'll start lightly taking out wood inside getting it down close to what I know from previous experience how thick it really needs to be with the particular type of wood
And it'll vary from one wood to another what's gonna make that perfect sound.
And once I get the way I think I'm close then I'll switch over to a mousepad with a little attachment on the end with the sander on it so I can get in there and do two things.
Number one clean it up to where that's good and smooth and looks pretty
And also start putting the little curvature on this sounding edge up here.
And when I get to the point to where I think I am close,
I have a test paddle and I'll take this thing and I'll hold it up here
[TURKEY CALL NOISE]
Well that's too high pitch or let's do whatever.
Then I'll take out a little bit more wood to like get it to where it sounds just like, to my ear now might not be for yours.
But the key thing is, does it work for the gobbler?
[BIRD CHIRPING]