Duck Call.

[Joe]

My morning's amusement has been making this:-

           

It's far from good but, as it was a first attempt, I'm surprised that it works at all. If there was anybody in next-door they'd probably think I was messing about with a particularly ill TRF.

- Joe

[pwdrive]

Wot's up me ducks.

Lawrence.

[AlanBeckett]

It's Luv up there I would think, although he is on the South side
I would think it's getting a bit Brisk in your Porch young Joe.
Have any Ducks turned up?

Alan

[Joe]

"Brisk" does sum it up, but you don't notice when your occupied. Besides that I've got my thermal combat jacket liner on. I may look like a paramilitary teddy bear but at least I'm a warm paramilitary teddy bear.

- Joe

[Retired]

Hi,

Well done Joe; decent job considering its turned on an engineering lathe. If it keeps raining I'm sure ducks will arrive without being called?

After a miserable morning the sun has just come out but its still very windy and bitterly cold.

Kind regards, Col.

[camallison]

We've just lost a few panes of glass from the greenhouse - think I'll turn to breeding ducks! Maybe I could do with that duck call Joe.

Colin

[Refugee]

I had to get the bin quickly after it had been emptied to avoid having to chaise it down the street.
Another one was over and about to set off down the street when I got there.

[Yorkie]

Looks great Joe!

Duck and game calls are quite a thing on ‘the other side of the pond’. A few years ago I bought an American book on making duck and game calls after a demonstration at our woodturning club. Never got round to making any, but the book might be of interest - you can read a few pages of it here:

http://www.amazon.com/Turning-Custom-Duc...156523281X

On the wider topic of making things in wood which make a noise, there’s a video of youtube with other links, by a guy called Steve Ramsey, for making a four note train whistle, with the free plans available too. Nice project for anyone who has acquired a band-saw, but don’t follow his band-saw techniques if you want to remain attached to your fingers! Good fun for little kids, or regressive adults!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43nYG_HQxE8

Steve has uploaded hundreds of videos – there’s a referees’ whistle in wood here:

http://www.woodworkingformeremortals.com...istle.html

He has a website ‘WWMM’ – ‘Wood Working for Mere Mortals’ and uploads a video each Friday, usually on making something from nothing, such as old pallets. He’s one of those effusive ‘larger than life’ 'high as a kite' Americans (a bit in the vein of ‘Cap’n Eddie’), who Brits don’t always take kindly to, and probably think he’s been at the Evostik or felt-tip pens again, but in a dismal world, it’s good to know that there are a few characters around who don’t take life too seriously. Don’t like? Don’t watch!

Hope that's of interest.

[Joe]

Funnily enough, David, a chime whistle was next on my list, though mine will be turned.

The barrel on my call isn't really long enough but it's as long as I can drill. Sounds like a good excuse for a bit of segmented turning.

You can have a listen here: http://youtu.be/8iedlx9WLv8

How much of the quality is down to my skill (or lack thereof) as a maker or blower I can't say.

- Joe

[Joe]

I've had a fiddle with the reeds which seems to have made a distinct improvement.

The video above has been duly up-dated.

- Joe