Pot call Rebuild
Pot call Rebuild
A buddy of mine called and asked if I could fix one of his favorite calls, that he dropped and broke. I thought, what the heck, I'd give it a try. The call was a store bought, HS Strut Triple glass. So I took it apart, miced everything, and made a new pot out of some walnut, and reglued it back up with the original parts. Was really pleased how it came out. The sound quality was even better than the original. I'm guessing because of the wood pot verses the plastic. Here's some pics, before and after.
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Amazing!
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I’ve got one I’m wanting to do the same thing with, I just haven’t built up the courage yet. Did you make the pedestal the same diameter? It seems awfully large to me but I don’t know a whole lot about building calls yet. Also did you put the slots back in it?
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And let’s here a sound file!
Good job on keeping his memories alive!
Good job on keeping his memories alive!
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I made the inside as close to identical as I could. I did not take any pics of the inside for various reasons I won't get into. Used the same 2 pieces of glass for soundboards on the inside. And of coarse the surface. About the only thing differant, other than the material used in the pot itself, was the glue I used. They used what I'm sure was silocone. I could wrong, but it pulled off with ease, and stretched like a rubber band. It was also very soft. I use E6000 on all my calls. Better bond. Really tough to get a call apart without destroying it. As for sound? I think my version sounded better. So did Erik. How I know is, I found one on amazon, and bought it, just to compare it. Now mind you, the origional did sound good. I just like the sound better out of mine. Something about wood, verses plastic. I've made pots out of acrylic, and cast, and don't like the sound out of them either. I'll take a good hardwood pot call any day over a mass produced plastic call.Fdept56 wrote: ↑February 1st, 2019, 11:05 am I’ve got one I’m wanting to do the same thing with, I just haven’t built up the courage yet. Did you make the pedestal the same diameter? It seems awfully large to me but I don’t know a whole lot about building calls yet. Also did you put the slots back in it?