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Custom Calls		 Turning Custom Duck and Game Calls - The Complete Guide for Craftsmen, Collectors and Outdoorsmen, is the first expositive work on this centuries-old craft.  Greg Keats and I spent more than six months collaborating on this important contribution to the craftsmanship of Custom  Duck, Goose, Turkey and other game calls, the ultimate tools for outdoorsmen.

Published by Fox Chapel Publishing Co., this book emphasizes the methods of construction of turned game calls, and includes tips and techniques offered by other experts in the art of custom duck call and other game call making.

  • Jim James of Carlson Championship Calls comments on the design and use of custom duck calls;
  • Charlie Hess, the God father of the short reed goose call, offers a history of his work making custom goose calls;
  • David Gaston, who learned to make custom duck calls from the renowned Alvin Taylor, gives tips on finishing;
  • Wade Carpenter, both an expert duck call and goose call maker and machinist, writes about specialized tools used for game call making; and
  • Loren Reese, demonstrates the superb lanyards he has designed, especially to prevent loss of two-part duck and goose calls.

Turning Custom Duck and Game Calls  is available from many regular retail sources.  To order a signed copy from me just send me a check or money order for $19.95 (the cover price, postage to the lower 48 states included).  Let me know who it's for and I'll personalize my signature.

You'll also find some articles I've written about some of the specialized methods I have developed for making some of the calls shown on my Duck and Goose Calls page:  Building Aztec is an article on segmented call construction;  Freeform Laminations details that form of laminated calls and there's an article about joining barrels and stoppers with Threaded Inserts.  You'll also find a story about the Granddaddy of all Trout and my Spring 2006 turkey hunt.

I'm working on a new book with a working title Making Accessories for the Well-Appointed Fly Fisher.  This book is a project oriented work and is taking much longer to write than I would like but I keep making a little progress as time goes by.

I am also the Editor of the National Callmakers and Collectors Newsletter, a publication of the Callmakers and Collectors Association of America (CCAA).  You can read past issues here:

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