September Workbench

[Charles H.]

I know there's one in the carving forum, but none here for September.

Small Shelf for some hunting memorabilia. Got the idea of a generic spam instagram page of wood working projects. 6 inch cedar fence pickets, finished with Danish Oil. Grouse fan, shot shell, and canvas photo print of Shadow are from a trip to Maine a few years ago(2022 I think). Small functional oil lamp from Vermont Lanterns. The Holiday Shell box I bought on Ebay, and I won't tell you how much I paid for an empty cardboard box just because it had a Grouse on it!

 

[Eric Patterson]

Charles

Very nice. Those old shell boxes have become very collectable. I hate to think of the dollars I threw away in the 80s and the guys that hunted before then would be really upset to know what they tossed.

 

[Eric Patterson]

I am working on a batch of giant duck calls. About 2 1/2 times the size of your typical call. These are from the Osage orange trees my neighbor, who owns a tree service, gave me a few years ago. The wood is now dry and ready to use. A lot of steps to go. The second picture shows what I came up with to hold my tooling when using the patternmaker lathe. I'm still messing around with tool angles, cutters and such but the big cylinders (call barrels) in the first image demonstrate I'm getting pretty good results with this set up. For the barrels I'm using a jam chuck and live center to turn between centers about the bore.

 

[HenryHawthorne]

Go big or go home! Metal reed, I hope!

 

[Eric Patterson]

Go big or go home! Metal reed, I hope!

I planned on mylar but I don't think they will actually blow. My plans are to scale up a call so it is just like the real thing except a lot bigger. I don't know if I can find mylar that thick and I'm also not sure how the reed will react being so much larger. I'm thinking it will take a ton of air to work, more than my lungs can supply. The tone board channel is 1/2". That's a big orifice to blow into.

Think of it as a salesman model like in the old days when they carried mini versions except this is bigger, not smaller.

 

[SJ Fairbank]

That looks like a cool project. Call them Eric's Pterosaur calls, maybe you can call in a banded one.

 

[Steve Sanford]

I am working on a batch of giant duck calls. About 2 1/2 times the size of your typical call. These are from the Osage orange trees my neighbor, who owns a tree service, gave me a few years ago. The wood is now dry and ready to use. A lot of steps to go. The second picture shows what I came up with to hold my tooling when using the patternmaker lathe. I'm still messing around with tool angles, cutters and such but the big cylinders (call barrels) in the first image demonstrate I'm getting pretty good results with this set up. For the barrels I'm using a jam chuck and live center to turn between centers about the bore.

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Same theory as over-size decoys??? or do you lure in bigger ducks????

SJS

 

[Eric Patterson]

Not bigger ducks. That's silly. Farther ducks. Like three states away

 

[Charles H.]

That looks like a cool project. Call them Eric's Pterosaur calls, maybe you can call in a banded one.

With AI you could make some really good Pterosaur hero shots for marketing these calls.

 

[SJ Fairbank]

With AI you could make some really good Pterosaur hero shots for marketing these calls.

Some buffoon would believe it and call the warden.

 

[D. Hinton]

Eric
I’m jealous . You seem to always have some sort of cool / fun project going