jhalfhill

wow, good job but you took the hard way. find a buddy or friend who will let you use their wood lathe for about 5 minuts and u can crank out 5 of them. i made them in wood shop in high school but couldnt get the slate . all you do is mount your 4x4 piece of wood on the end of the lathe and go to work. doesnt take long at all.

X Legion General

nice call makes me want to make one of my own. It would be pretty sweet to call in a turkey with a call I made.

MDManiac

Thanks guys...

Chuck my slate is 1/32 thick I think.

the only tools i had available i used! how would i go about getting a lathe? i dont know what exactly it is...?

Also I wanna get my next one more raspier, any idea how to do that. the next call is out of maple, and may be a slate over glass, would that make it raspier than just plain slate? thanks...!

Chuck7

I made one lately as well using a router and a band saw. Thanks for the info. I thought my slate was too thick. It was.1/32 is very thin. You can buy lots of 5 pieces of circular slate on ebay. Very Cheap. Mine sounds very nice but I thick I would get more volumn if the slate was thinner and the wood harder. Some people just by a cheap laminated cutting board from Walmart for a few bucks. You did a very nice job. Mine was fast and sloppy. I just wanted to see if it would work. It does . I plan on using it Friday along with my Primos Freak.
Chuck