Mrfu. are you serious? I thought you said you were new to call making.But here you are cutting your own toneboards and coming up with this squirrel call. I think you are pulling our leg! 
Either way keep up the good work! 
this is the second call I made it looks bad but it works pretty good the first one is just a 5/8 dowel toneboard it looks even worse but it also sounds alright . Now if I only had a squirrel call and duck call made by some one else to compare my work to it would be interesting . Even nice up close pics of the tone boards would be excellent . . . but maybe figuring it out by trial and error will be best for me in the long run .
The way I thought about it is - a hundred yrs ago how would a hunter make his own call ... probably out of whatever he already had and without much in the way of tools so that is the approach I took .
Now I would love to have a tone board jig to work with ( and will probably make one ) as I will have to hand cope any tone board I make after it is turned to shape ( I can freehand a dowel on the bands saw but not a tapered toneboard . But I would like to know are there call makers that don't use jigs and just make each call a custom call or is that a bad idea ? Also do you guys see anything wrong with making my reeds as I do or is there an advantage to mylar ?
thank for any input and the encouragement Mrfu
