- Tim Fralick
- Tim lives in upstate New York. He has been a professional woodworker for twenty years and has recently begun making both box and slate calls.
The box on the left is made from butternut with a nicely carved border in the cherry lid. Tim uses a very thin coat of gel varnish as a finish, and various techniques to give the wood an "antiqued" look. As for the slate, the pot was cut out with a 4" hole saw, and hollowed out mainly with a Forstner bit to remove the bulk of the material. Who said you had to use a lathe, anyway?
- Dave Coleman
- Dave hails from Missouri, a major turkey hunting state, and enjoys collecting calls. He insists that he is no expert, but he does own Earl Mickel's books on turkey calls and callmakers, and is willing to share information from there.
- Jesse (aka "spectr17")
- As the picture below illustrates, Jesse makes a good-looking wingbone call. Click on the wingbone pic for his informative--not to mention humorous (pun intended)--instructions for making and playing a wingbone call, as well as his turkey and other hunting pages.
- David Collins
- Dave's wingbone yelpers are tapered for appearance and are available with or without brass. He says, "The most important thing about my calls to me is their sound. I tune each one. If I won't hunt with it, then no body will because it goes in the trash. My calls are signed D Collins with a letter and a date.....W-2000 for winter 2000, S 2000 for spring or summer 2000 and F 2000 for fall 2000...which makes it easy to identify when the call was made. All my calls are personalized with the customer's name or nickname on the call....their preference. Each call is made to order for the person that orders one. A call is made for one person at a time by me one at a time."
For more information, email Dave at Yelper55@aol.com.
