Duck Call

Call looks great, and I like the photo….though I would do away with the line created where the background bottom meets the side. Also, is that shell an older variety with a waxy paper hull?

-- Measuring twice and cutting once only works if you read the tape correctly!

Thanks MOJOE. I agree the line needs to go. You are correct the shell is on older waxy paper one.

-- Duane, Iowa

For finishing turnings, I haven’t found anything I like better than shellawax polish and paste. It goes on while still on the lathe, similar to using beeswax.

-- If you don't have time to do it right, do you have time to do it twice?

Just ducky. looks super.

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looks good, for finishing a call, the best is a CA glue finish but it is brittle and can chip but it looks amazing if done right. You can also you a spar varnish, anything that is really durable will work, a duck call takes a lot of abuse. Deft is an ok finish but if bug spray touches it then it will goop up and destroy the finish… hope this helps.
-Bochmann

Very handsome! I love making calls.

-- My dad and I built a 65 chev pick up.I killed trannys in that thing for some reason-Hog

You can use different programs to remove the lines and brighten or change the contrast. I use Microsoft Picture Manager (comes with Office) to crop and change brightness, which is all that I need with most pictures. I have used the free programs GIMP and Paint.net to do touch-ups, in that you can capture a piece of background to use as a color and paint over lines. But it is easiest to try and avoid that line. Try getting a large piece of white posterboard that you can curve from underneath it and then up behind it.

-- Mike P., Arkansas, http://mpounders1.blogspot.com