composite decking turkey call

[J.Rode]

Parker looks like you came over to the dark side, now your hosed.   

Nice calls fellas, they look great.

Jason

[VECtor Calls]

Rode,  I'll be in real trouble when I finally jump into the real duck call making world thanks to watching you that day!   

Parker

[Lower Creek Game Calls]

Hey Splash how did you get that gloss finish on the composite. 

[Splash]

Tru-oil. I tried spar from a can and it took way too long to dry, why, not sure. tru-oil wasn't too bad, just make sure you use very little at a time since it does not suck into the material. The first coat I place on this one, was a normal one and it took me a bit to get it down to a thin/non messy later  . I am OK with it now and the one I just finished looks better too.

[MoHops]

You can get a pretty good sheen on it by using Mother's Mag Wheel Polish as well.  It just doesn't get into the wood fibers like the tru oil does.  Still looks pretty good and doesn't take as long.

[Aaron at Wingerts Woodworks]

I made this one the other day and sanded it to 800 grit, then buffed the material with tripoli rouge on the Beall.  It is mighty shiny after that.  

Only downside is that it is also mighty slick.  I may sandblast these in the future just to make them really easy to hang onto and harder to beat up!
This call took me under 20 minutes, start to finish including gluing in the soundboard and surface.  I really like this material as an option for folks that don't want to spend what I charge for a wood call.

[MoHops]

Aaron

Now I see why Schutte gave you all those scraps.  What you have there is an old version of Correct Deck no longer available.  You don't know it, but you are sitting on a gold mine my friend!!!!  When this whole composite turkey pot thing becomes popular and people start collecting different calls made from different variations of composite decking, you will have the green hedge of composites!!  I can see it now.

[Aaron at Wingerts Woodworks]

Aaron

Now I see why Schutte gave you all those scraps.  What you have there is an old version of Correct Deck no longer available.  You don't know it, but you are sitting on a gold mine my friend!!!!  When this whole composite turkey pot thing becomes popular and people start collecting different calls made from different variations of composite decking, you will have the green hedge of composites!!  I can see it now.

I think I'm going to have to get some more from them then! 

What's so special about the stuff?  Just how solid it is?

[MoHops]

I was just pulling your leg Aaron.  The only difference between that and the new stuff is there is a painted coating on the surface of the new stuff.  On a side note, Correct Deck and Fiberon are two of the most dense composites that I've run across so it is a good material to work with.
 

[aprilheadhunter]

I made this one the other day and sanded it to 800 grit, then buffed the material with tripoli rouge on the Beall.  It is mighty shiny after that.  

Only downside is that it is also mighty slick.  I may sandblast these in the future just to make them really easy to hang onto and harder to beat up!
This call took me under 20 minutes, start to finish including gluing in the soundboard and surface.  I really like this material as an option for folks that don't want to spend what I charge for a wood call.

I think thats the 1st 1 piece striker I've seen you post.  Are you broken?

[Aaron at Wingerts Woodworks]

I think thats the 1st 1 piece striker I've seen you post.  Are you broken?

Nah, just changing things up a little.  Trying to get over my hatred for making strikers so I've been making some one-piecers.  I also just bought a big box of dymondwood for strikers.  Still keeping the two piece strikers in my bag of tricks but the one piece ones are sure a lot faster and easier to turn.

[Nelson Woodworks]

I can vouch that the composite decking pot call sounds great and the turkeys like it. I received one from KCtermite as a gift and the turkeys definitely like how it sounds.

You can get this stuff in 4x4" posts, so now I'm wondering how it would work as a duck or goose call....

[Jon @ JRwoods]

Posts!?  Yeah I've got to find some of that!

[Aaron at Wingerts Woodworks]

Yup, they sell 2x2 (nominal) ballusters for decks too.  Not sure what they actually measure though....Maybe 1-1/2"???

[MoHops]

Correct Deck and some others also come in 2x material as well!!  Let me do some looking around the lumberyard, I think we might have some pieces that I can give ya when we do the trade up.