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04-30-2009 | 06:12 AM

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JW

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RE: How to make your own wingbone call

Now I dry fit many at one time and then glue in batches. I use Devcon clear Epoxy which comes in a 2 tube set.
I do not worry about excess glue at all we will take care of that later. I glue trying to fill the joint soo there are no air gaps. I then place on a plastic ice cream container and glue the next one. When the glue is slightly hardened or if you are only doing one – go back and add extra filling all air gaps/depressions you see in your joint. Air gaps will cause loss of volume.

NOTE:
I also will stick a small dab of epoxy in the mouthpiece end as I have found if I ream this with a smaller hole I get a much easier call to use! I use a diamond conical drill bit in my Dremel. Not too much now as you don't want to plug it so bad you can not drill it!

Glued with excess

And Cleaned!

Now I clean all my calls with a wire wheel. It is a medium brush wire wheel I have added to a grinder. The wire removes the excess epoxy nicely and also removes excess old gristle to which I told you not to worry about. It will also burnish the call a bit and really clean it up. I also will wire brush he mouthpiece taken off all sharp edges.

Below you calls should now look like this after you have cleaned the epoxy glue. Now you have a finished call or you can add artwork to.

I use Rapidio-graph pens in 0.50 and 0.35 and slightly smaller. Filled with their India Black Ink.

Okay now we can sign our calls, add the bird's biographic such as date of kill, beard length, weight, spur lengths, area killed, and Specie. Anything you want! Art is in the eye of the beholder! :

I also draw feathers and turkey tracks - it is a hobby as I do not sell but do trade and do donate to wildlife organizations as a silent auction article.

I draw feathers by starting the feather shaft first. Then I draw the outline of the feather and then add the feather texture with hooked lines. I then change pens and add the feather barring we see. I have several good feathers I have saved and just mimic what I see. If you make a mistake - don't like what you have written or drawn - I have an eraser! I go back to my Wire Wheel and it will take it off!

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