Home made coyote caller advice.....

[Stubaby]

I've kind of been getting the hang of using hand calls......so I kinda want to spice things up. I like the primos little dog with the green and white reeds with the plastic howler tube that I can switch from one to the other. I like to remove the tube and just crank on the little reed parts for distress calling, then put the tube on for howling, yipping, and pup distress sounds.

However, my dad has been retired now for a few years and has become a pretty awesome woodcarver and lathe-man.

I don't want to step on anybody's toes who make and sell custom calls, but I would really like to have a call or two that my dad could make for me. Just for nostalgia sake.

Can anybody recommend what kindu of wood, which reeds to buy that my dad can pair up to so, dimensions ect? My dad can make bowls on the lathe and carve chains out of a chunk of wood. He's even into carving the old timer guys faces into the thick chunk of wood. He has all the tools and ability.

I just want to give him some info so he can make me a howler or two and a few distress calls for me. I think hanging a yote from a fence post and having a lanyard of calls made by my ol man would be a cool pic.

Thanks in advance.

 

[tarheel]

A friend of mine in OK made a couple of calls for me; I'll see if he can get me dimensions and a source for the reeds. He turns them out on a lathe too, one from red oak and the other from mesquite. The mesquite is a nice dark wood with some unique figure. I'll get back to you when I have something.