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[rebelp74]

He was great to deal with and talk to. Truly good guy, from everything I've heard and after talking to him about it I'm sure it will be.

[Goldfish]

New trailer bearings just to err on the side of caution and preventative maintenance, grease for said bearings, new roller pin with caps for the trailer's rear roller (the hose clamp came off the old pin finally), new carpet for the boat, aqua seal, and I got booted out before I could find shoe goo since they were closing early for memorial day.

sent from a phancy fone

[The Duck Hammer]

Whataburger Monterey Melt.

[Westie25]

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Betty?

[Rick]

What's the easiest way to order new reeds and corks from RNT I see they have a kit but I just want **** cut for specific calls.

You will have to cut corks and reeds for all calls. Standard cut reeds aren't tuned.

Unless you have an old RNT Timbre, the corks will be precut to fit any RNT. And if you were once happy with the call's tuning, the odds are overwhelming that fresh cork is all that's needed to make it right again. Very few non contest callers will ever wear out a reed.

Lares is the only company I've heard of that sells reeds pre-cut to varying lengths, everything else I've seen has been cut to width but needs trimmed to suit the individual tuning it. Which is really simpler than most folks think. Here's a copy of how I tune mine for absolutely best "fit" with the fewest possible wasted reeds:

Been threatening for some time to put what I've found the most Murphy-proof duck call tuning method down in writing and finally got around to taking a couple photos to illustrate the process today. So here goes...

You'll need the call, a fresh cork, one or two new, uncut reeds, a sharp knife, sharp scissors and a fine tipped marking pen. (I prefer the "Extra Fine" Sharpie, but had what I had.)




Whether the call is new or not, if its current cork doesn't fit snuggly in its notch WITHOUT THE REED IN PLACE, change it before proceeding. It is impossible to determine the call's best tuning if the cork is not fresh enough to put proper pressure on the reed. Remove the reed and old cork from their “J” slot, wet a fresh cork with saliva and push it all the way into the slot by itself, without reed, so it’s centered in the slot and sticks out both sides equally. Then with a sharp blade, trim away the excess cork, working form its toneboard end to the back of the “J” slot, taking care to follow the insert’s bevel without cutting into the insert, itself. Remove the fresh cork for now and remember to slicken it with spit every time you push it back into the slot.

The "catch-22" of call tuning is that you can not know what the optimum reed length is until after you've trimmed too much. The work-around for that being never to cut your current best sounding reed. Always use your current best reed as a template for where to begin cutting on another.

We'll assume we're starting with a call that's reed is of at least functional length. If it's "heavy" and/or too low pitched, we should only need one new, uncut reed to help us find the call's best-for-us tuning. If it's "light" and/or too high pitched, it will require two new, uncut reeds to determine the call's best-for-us tuning. Though my personal preferences may play into it, I suspect calls are generally much more apt to come with too much, rather than too little reed length.

Before cutting on a new reed, we'll lay the current one on it and square up their butt ends:




and mark the new reed along the working end of the old one:




Naturally, if the current reed is too short, or even possibly so, you'll want to be extra careful to allow plenty of leeway before making your first careful cut. And from that cut on, it is critical to remember that it's much easier to trim too much than too little. The sliver shown here is too big:




If you're only getting such small slivers that you're not even cutting all the way across the reed, great! The reed doesn't need to be square, just properly tuned.

After each tiny slice, assemble the call and give it go. Again, don't get impatient, as very small cuts affect big changes. As soon as you feel you're close, nip small dog ears off the reed's corners and try it again, could be all it took. And when you find yourself with a better sounding reed than the one you began with STOP CUTTING ON IT!

If the new reed is now shorter than the original, you can start snipping a hair at a time off the original until it either sounds better than the new "best" or has been cut too far. In the later case, you've found that your new reed is as well tuned as the call will get for you. But if you manage to make the original reed sound better, you'll stop experimenting with it and repeat the trimming process with the now second best one. And so on until you've gone one snip too far with one reed but are left with a best reed in hand.

If, however, your new reed sounded better than the original before it was as short as it, you'll need a second new, uncut reed to begin experimenting with and can discard the original as no longer being of use. Just use your new best reed as a template to mark the other new one and proceed as above, again, until you have gone a tiny snip too far but still have the best possible reed in hand.

Sounds a lot more complicated than it is.

[goodkarmarising]

Some peace sweet lemon tea this morning.

[BrewGUN]

gonna be droppin my truck off today for new rocker panels, couple body mounts, and lower doors skins. my spending is gonna be cut for a while.

[Flightstopper]

gonna be droppin my truck off today for new rocker panels, couple body mounts, and lower doors skins. my spending is gonna be cut for a while.

Is that something that's common maintenance with the salt?

[BrewGUN]

gonna be droppin my truck off today for new rocker panels, couple body mounts, and lower doors skins. my spending is gonna be cut for a while.

Is that something that's common maintenance with the salt?

sort of, im having all the rockers, lower 6" (two tone area), and fenders line-x'ed (spray on bed liner) to prevent it in the future. The original owner of the truck left the ghey factory running boards on it, and they are known to hold dirt, salt, debris up next to the body/rockers so it eats them out. The guy I bought the truck from removed the running boards but the damage had been done. I need to get some sort off mud flaps as well to limit the slinging effect from the tires.

[Bootlipkiller]

Thanks Rick

[goodkarmarising]

gonna be droppin my truck off today for new rocker panels, couple body mounts, and lower doors skins. my spending is gonna be cut for a while.

Is that something that's common maintenance with the salt?

Michigan cars are notorious for rusting out due to all the salt they put out on the roads.

[Olly]

gonna be droppin my truck off today for new rocker panels, couple body mounts, and lower doors skins. my spending is gonna be cut for a while.

Is that something that's common maintenance with the salt?

Michigan cars are notorious for rusting out due to all the salt they put out on the roads.

Brought a GA truck up there and within 2 years my muffler had literally rusted the back half off. I've been riding around with the last 6ft of pipe gone. Sounds awesome.

[grizz18]

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Betty?

Who puts a pot under a keurig?

[Westie25]

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Betty?

Who puts a pot under a keurig?

Morons

[assateague]

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Betty?

Who puts a pot under a keurig?

Somebody who's man enough to drink more than one cup of coffee.

[aunt betty]

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Betty?

Fuck you.

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[Westie25]

It's not Christmas time betty

[MuddyWaterWarlock]

It's not Christmas time betty

It might be in his world

[Westie25]

It's not Christmas time betty

It might be in his world

True true

[BrewGUN]

It's not Christmas time betty

It might be in his world

True true

Hey I use a mug that has Christmas lights on it and says you make me twinkle in the bottom of it. Nobody takes my cup that way. And about October/November I start choosing Christmas music just to annoy the hippies! So lay off the Christmas bashing lol

[Bootlipkiller]

It's not Christmas time betty

It might be in his world

True true

Hey I use a mug that has Christmas lights on it and says you make me twinkle in the bottom of it. Nobody takes my cup that way. And about October/November I start choosing Christmas music just to annoy the hippies! So lay off the Christmas bashing lol

Christmas music sucks!

[MuddyWaterWarlock]

It's not Christmas time betty

It might be in his world

True true

Hey I use a mug that has Christmas lights on it and says you make me twinkle in the bottom of it. Nobody takes my cup that way. And about October/November I start choosing Christmas music just to annoy the hippies! So lay off the Christmas bashing lol

Christmas music sucks!

I ususally start whistling christmas music in July just to drive people nuts

[aunt betty]

My other coffee mugs are too plain.
Not even remotely gourmet.
Did the silly mug to show what good taste I dont fucking have.

[DeadEye_Dan]

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[Mornin Beef]

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You got a problem.

[bill herian]

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You got a problem.

If fine Yooper craftmanship is a problem, I want one too.

[Olly]

Been right by there before.

Sent from my phone.

[bill herian]

I was in Michigamme for the last five days. Walleye bloodbath I tell you.

[Mornin Beef]

I was in Michigamme for the last five days. Walleye bloodbath I tell you.

You mean walleye sperm shower? How can't you biologists out there time your seasons appropriately?

[Willie]

[quote="Westie25"]It's not Christmas time betty

It might be in his world

True true

Hey I use a mug that has Christmas lights on it and says you make me twinkle in the bottom of it. Nobody takes my cup that way. And about October/November I start choosing Christmas music just to annoy the hippies! So lay off the Christmas bashing lol

Christmas music sucks!

I ususally start whistling christmas music in July just to drive people nuts [/quote]
I listen to it year round. Actually have a transiberian orchestra cd in the changer now, as well as two Mannheim steamroller cd's.