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The Art of Handcrafting Custom Game Calls => Handcrafting Custom Duck Calls => Topic started by: Aaron at Wingerts Woodworks on July 26, 2014, 05:30:12 PM
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It has been quite some time since I've posted pics of the whistles I've been building. Here are a bunch of them.
Crosscut stabilized spalted sycamore.
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh446/thekctermite/40150C5D-09F5-498A-92C9-A35637F8C6FC.jpg) (http://s547.photobucket.com/user/thekctermite/media/40150C5D-09F5-498A-92C9-A35637F8C6FC.jpg.html)
This is marigold acrylic from Bear Tooth. I call it the clown whistle. Ugly as sin, but the customer loves it.
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh446/thekctermite/CF41F8F6-30B5-47C5-B037-FB6612B86E08.jpg) (http://s547.photobucket.com/user/thekctermite/media/CF41F8F6-30B5-47C5-B037-FB6612B86E08.jpg.html)
These are Texas ebony. This really is one of my favorite woods.
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh446/thekctermite/6EA24203-B202-4A36-9AA2-9B1B90DCB87D.jpg) (http://s547.photobucket.com/user/thekctermite/media/6EA24203-B202-4A36-9AA2-9B1B90DCB87D.jpg.html)
These are my CNC'd whistles in black. These are a pretty new thing for me and have sold so fast I can hardly keep them in stock.
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh446/thekctermite/AFABC51D-C9EC-46DF-B315-14E95A4303B0.jpg) (http://s547.photobucket.com/user/thekctermite/media/AFABC51D-C9EC-46DF-B315-14E95A4303B0.jpg.html)
One of my best customers' orders (prior to being oiled).
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh446/thekctermite/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-06/256EB3A7-67FD-4B08-82F5-571C1EA10940.jpg) (http://s547.photobucket.com/user/thekctermite/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-06/256EB3A7-67FD-4B08-82F5-571C1EA10940.jpg.html)
Stabilized redwood burl.
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh446/thekctermite/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-06/D1981BF0-A235-4248-B198-40CA91B0A086.jpg) (http://s547.photobucket.com/user/thekctermite/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-06/D1981BF0-A235-4248-B198-40CA91B0A086.jpg.html)
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Beautiful whistles Aaron!
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Beautiful!!!
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Thanks Tyson!
Here are some more.
Gray acrylic with orange acrylic mouth end and toneboard.
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh446/thekctermite/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/240447F5-BDE1-4831-9737-87953D27A9C1.jpg) (http://s547.photobucket.com/user/thekctermite/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/240447F5-BDE1-4831-9737-87953D27A9C1.jpg.html)
A hand-turned gray acrylic and a black CNC'd acrylic. Both have been media blasted.
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh446/thekctermite/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/3EEA078A-6C62-40C4-9BBB-707CCA210370.jpg) (http://s547.photobucket.com/user/thekctermite/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/3EEA078A-6C62-40C4-9BBB-707CCA210370.jpg.html)
Orange and black stabilized box elder burl.
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh446/thekctermite/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/83128E65-6726-4CC8-8E66-F89F4BFDBD30.jpg) (http://s547.photobucket.com/user/thekctermite/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/83128E65-6726-4CC8-8E66-F89F4BFDBD30.jpg.html)
Stabilized black ash burl and vasticola burl. These are currently en route to Italy.
(http://i547.photobucket.com/albums/hh446/thekctermite/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/33103F59-2EE3-4CE4-8534-F43FFA691822.jpg) (http://s547.photobucket.com/user/thekctermite/media/Mobile%20Uploads/2014-07/33103F59-2EE3-4CE4-8534-F43FFA691822.jpg.html)
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Those are purty too!!! :bow: :bigup:
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Beautiful calls Aaron...I love media blasting acrylic it makes finishing them so much easier :whistling:
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Those are Top Shelf Aaron. Very nice indeed.
Dave
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You're stabilized burl calls will always be a favorite. Orange and black stabilized BE is absolutely sick!
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These are all awesome. Agree with Tyson about the orange and black beb, and that sycamore is sweet, too. Gonna have to get one of your whistls one of these days!
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Beautiful my man. I don't know what else to say. The perfection is outstanding.
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Beautiful whistles Aaron! They sound just as good as they look too.
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Thanks guys! I appreciate it.
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Its about time you got busy making some calls. :hysterical: :pot:
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Very nice sir.
Jason
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Its about time you got busy making some calls. :hysterical: :pot:
I wish you could see the look on my face. My tired, sawdust-covered 1:30am face that just came up from the shop. :yawn: Glad I love doing it, because if I didn't I might have a nervous breakdown.
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Outstanding..... :beer:
I'm glad I have a couple in my collection, and of course one of them is going on my lanyard this year...
Keep them coming! :bigup:
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You know, there is a very best at everything. I have seen guys that are the very best at bronc riding, at high jump all the way down to spinning pizzas and playing the french horn. Yours happen to be making the duck whistle. Nobody, and in my opinion nobody, does these like you do. I have made a few, but I have a bad habit of holding what I do up against someone elses. I have looked at all the makers here and in person and know I shouldnt. Those are way beyond pretty. Bout as good as they can get. Italy? Wow! Thy reputation precedes you. I actually sold one to a guy in Italy once. But our Italy is 12 miles from here, Italy, Tx.lol. One question, sir. what size tool do you use for the holes. I assume you have said before, but I cant find it.
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You know, there is a very best at everything. I have seen guys that are the very best at bronc riding, at high jump all the way down to spinning pizzas and playing the french horn. Yours happen to be making the duck whistle. Nobody, and in my opinion nobody, does these like you do. I have made a few, but I have a bad habit of holding what I do up against someone elses. I have looked at all the makers here and in person and know I shouldnt. Those are way beyond pretty. Bout as good as they can get. Italy? Wow! Thy reputation precedes you. I actually sold one to a guy in Italy once. But our Italy is 12 miles from here, Italy, Tx.lol. One question, sir. what size tool do you use for the holes. I assume you have said before, but I cant find it.
Thank you for the kind words. My bore is 1/2". The sound holes are made by an 82* solid carbide 6 flute countersink. Sound hole diameter isn't super-critical as long as the amount of air going over the toneboard is adjusted accordingly. Big holes.....small air over the toneboard. Small holes....Need more air over the toneboard. Not sure if that makes sense.
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Man you have been busy! They are all gorgeous. :bigup:
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Aaron, on the picture with the orange/black whistle, is that a piece of hedge with green in it in the background? You need to make a whistle with that! :yes:
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Yep. Makes perfect sense. I had read that before in a prior post so I didnt figure I was tapping into a secret. Thanks for the info. Maybe next time you sell to someone in Italy or Tahiti or somewhere you could say you only hand deliver so as to make sure of safe delivery. Free call for round trip air fare. :yes:
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Well done my friend! Really glad we've become friends over the last few yrs and know I can call ya up whenever I've got an issue or to vent lol! R. Finchum said it best there simply isn't any better at making whistles period!!!! One of these days I'll get on your list and order me 1
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Very nice group of calls Aaron.
-Phil
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Very nice. I love the look of the orange and black burl.
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Those are all really nice, Aaron. Love seeing pics of your work.
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Awesome love the way the orange and gray acrylic goes together! There all awesome though!
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Aaron great looking bunch of whistles!!! :bow:
Mark
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All junk :hysterical: :hysterical:
STUMP
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Aaron, you are awesome man, I have looked up to you the most of any call makers I know, because of your perfection in everything you do, you are first class & I am glad to call you friend. Looks like you have gotten hooked on them like I have gotten hooked on Trumpets. By the way, I ran into a couple of your friends while Hunting up around Prinston last april, nice guys but was on land they weren't suppose to be on, but no problem, just given wrong info. Keep up the good work. Crawdad
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Aaron, you are awesome man, I have looked up to you the most of any call makers I know, because of your perfection in everything you do, you are first class & I am glad to call you friend. Looks like you have gotten hooked on them like I have gotten hooked on Trumpets. By the way, I ran into a couple of your friends while Hunting up around Prinston last april, nice guys but was on land they weren't suppose to be on, but no problem, just given wrong info. Keep up the good work. Crawdad
Thanks Crawdad, I appreciate your nice words. I heard about you meeting Chris. Sounds like the guys that promised them a hunt down there put them on land that they didn't have permission to be on, and Chris errantly trusted the guy when he said he was ok to be there. He's a good ethical dude and was completely mortified over it. He spoke really highly of how you treated him given the circumstances and said that the whole interaction took a positive turn when you two somehow figured out that you both know me. I met him at Bass Pro Shops when I first started making calls and he was staffing a booth for Mossy Oak. He has been as good a promoter of my products than I could ever hope for.
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Very Nice Aaron.....burning that midnight oil for sure. :2up:
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Wow its been some time since I have been here, Its still an amazing place, Those whistles are off the hook, I'm going to assume that the cnc work was an attempt to get caught up on your back log of orders and it went even crazier than before?? Good problem to have!! Beautiful calls Aaron, Kel
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Wow its been some time since I have been here, Its still an amazing place, Those whistles are off the hook, I'm going to assume that the cnc work was an attempt to get caught up on your back log of orders and it went even crazier than before?? Good problem to have!! Beautiful calls Aaron, Kel
Thanks. Yep, I started doing CNC'd ones in an effort to reduce the 16 month backlog.....Decrease demand for the hand-turned stuff. It has honestly blown up in my face because a ton of people are ordering CNC'd ones because they can get them pretty quickly AND asking to be placed on the waiting list for a hand-turned one. I can't finish sand, polish and tune them fast enough. They're selling out quick and I can only devote a little time to working on them compared to the hand-turned ones. Good problem to have I guess. I started with black and ivory. The ivory didn't sell until the black was gone. Then everyone wanted ivory. Now I'm out of both and everybody wants black. I also have a couple pearl colors in the works, along with a lot of black.
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Great looking whistles bud, top notch work