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The Art of Handcrafting Custom Game Calls => Handcrafting Traditional Reelfoot Duck Calls => Reelfoot Call Making Tutorials => Topic started by: BigB on April 08, 2016, 01:48:09 PM

Title: Benny Floyd's Reelfoot insert tutorial
Post by: BigB on April 08, 2016, 01:48:09 PM

Benny asked me if I could get his process turned into a tutorial, and here it is.

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Title: Re: Benny Floyd's Reelfoot insert tutorial
Post by: BigB on April 08, 2016, 01:51:28 PM

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r104/byersba/Benny/page7.jpg) (http://s142.photobucket.com/user/byersba/media/Benny/page7.jpg.html)

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Title: Re: Benny Floyd's Reelfoot insert tutorial
Post by: BigB on April 08, 2016, 01:55:47 PM

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r104/byersba/Benny/page12.jpg) (http://s142.photobucket.com/user/byersba/media/Benny/page12.jpg.html)

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Title: Re: Benny Floyd's Reelfoot insert tutorial
Post by: BigB on April 08, 2016, 01:59:54 PM

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r104/byersba/Benny/page17.jpg) (http://s142.photobucket.com/user/byersba/media/Benny/page17.jpg.html)

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Title: Re: Benny Floyd's Reelfoot insert tutorial
Post by: BigB on April 08, 2016, 02:04:12 PM

(http://i142.photobucket.com/albums/r104/byersba/Benny/page23.jpg) (http://s142.photobucket.com/user/byersba/media/Benny/page23.jpg.html)

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Title: Re: Benny Floyd's Reelfoot insert tutorial
Post by: FDR on April 08, 2016, 04:38:35 PM

Thanks for sharing Benny!  Another excellant call maker educates us on his method of making an insert.  See guys, your don't need a milling machine to make these calls.

Thanks Brian for helping with the tutorial.
Fred

Title: Re: Benny Floyd's Reelfoot insert tutorial
Post by: ben on April 08, 2016, 08:17:56 PM

Thanks for posting it Brian. I continue to tweak the method a bit but it all comes out the same in the end. The holder for turning the stopper, I do not use now. I turned between centers for a while and now use a 4 jaw chuck to hold the exhaust end and a live center to turn the stopper.

You can see this set up was made from scraps and the jig was the most costly but had help on it from a friend so did ok on it also.

Fred is correct you do not have to have a milling machine to make these calls. Maybe this will perk some more up in learning to make them.

Ben

Title: Re: Benny Floyd's Reelfoot insert tutorial
Post by: Gouldman on April 10, 2016, 07:11:32 AM

Great tutorial Benny, thanks to both Brian and you for sharing. :2up:

Title: Re: Benny Floyd's Reelfoot insert tutorial
Post by: James Strickland on April 11, 2016, 09:54:10 AM

Excellent tutorial!  Thanks for sharing your method, Benny.  I love seeing how guys make their calls.

Title: Re: Benny Floyd's Reelfoot insert tutorial
Post by: Henry H on April 20, 2016, 10:22:25 PM

Great tutorial Benny!