Making Better Tone Boards With a Duck Call Jig
If you have ever tried to file a tone board by hand without a duck call jig, you already know how frustratingly easy it is to ruin a perfectly good piece of acrylic or wood in a matter of seconds. It usually starts with a simple plan to "just shave off a tiny bit" to get that raspy low end, and ends with a pile of scrap and a heavy sigh. That is exactly why most of us who catch the call-making bug eventually realize that the jig is the most important tool on the workbench. It's the difference between a call that sounds like a dying crow and one that actually brings mallards down from the clouds. ...