Homemade Turkey Call Pics?

[Msbow]

Jackskinner, those calls you made look good. I really like that box call you made!! You didn't mention how it sounded??

[Jack Skinner]

No just not a good picture of the scratch calls. The large one is a poplar box with a cherry sound board on one side that I am scratching with a blood wood pen blank piece that is about 3 inches long. The small one is a poplar box with a thin piece of cherry glued on the top. Also trying the blood wood for a stryker. A paddle made of walnut about 1.5 inches wide made some good sounds as well.
Msbow the box call isnt tuned yet. I am hopefull it well sound good enough to take to the woods this spring.
Here is a little better picture of the scratch calls and the strykers I am trying so far. Its hard to tell but on the larger one the sound board is cherry
 

[joebuck]

now that pic tells a different story!  my money is on the smaller one. Bigger one probably has too much jake in it.  as far as box wood to striker combination... I like. Cedar to cedar, mahogany to persimmon,poplar to persimmon, walnut to purple heart, mahogoney to cedar, sika spruce to cherry,

trick to scratch box calling is holding that box lip at a slight angle to scratch the grain of the flat peg striker

[Jack Skinner]

Thanks Joebuck.
I am going to make a call a size somewhere inbetween the two I made so far. I have the walnut/purple hrt combo in the shop, I will try that.

Thanks again for all your help

[RC]

Anybody made a snuff can call. My Grandaddy used a call with a piece of latex on an old snuff can. RC

[AkDan]

no but I've built them out of pill bottles, they work ok.   The cheap tubes on the market sound much better imho.