Robert (r33h) and I talked about this very subject. As I put it to him, you won't lose either way. I have both of them and they are both amazing calls. The woodhavens I have were hand picked for me by our sales rep... apparently when Mike Pentecost found a really sweet one, he told our boy... who then called me.... I bought the call personally. I have four pot style woodhavens (two slates, one cystal and one glass), their real hen box, and just about three of every diaphram call they make. Their calls are really top notch.
I met Russel Lynch at a sportsman's show in SC when I lived there. He is as real as they get. I sorta felt like I was meeting Dale Earnhardt or something. I bought one of his slates and a Mahogony owl hooter outright, and ordered one of his aluminum calls a year later. They are awesome calls, and I thinkfor $50 per unit he is giving them away.
I'll say this tounge in cheek... I have never even HEARD of a flat sounding B&B being purchased. But I have taken Woodhavens out of the package in the store doing product demos for customers, and noticed that they were not quite as sweet as mine. Not that they are bad, they certainly are not. They'd still rock the snot out of most anything else on the market. I have spoken with Mike Pentecost on the telephone, and he is as wonderful a guy as you'd likely ever meet. And he makes some fantastic turkey calls. You aren't going to lose either way you go. The B&B is about $10-20 less than the woodhaven depending on where you shop.
An aside about the cherry classic: the CC is a higher pitched call. I think it almost sounds as loud as a glass call. If you want a sweeter, softer, lower pitched call, the B&B is the way to go... or take a look at the
Legend Slate by Woodhaven, which is set in Walnut... thats a call that doesn't leave the vest.
Cherry Classic vs. Bud & Betty
