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Title: Ivory tone board
Post by: ninthinning on April 28, 2007, 10:52:23 AM

Been working all morning on this ivory tone board. Its made from the solid end of a large warthog tusk. Very hard, dense ivory makes for super hard tone board surface. Only part way done but tested it out. My ears are still ringing. All purpose little call.

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Title: Re: Ivory tone board
Post by: HaMeR on April 28, 2007, 11:11:22 AM

Thats cool!! :congrats:

Title: Re: Ivory tone board
Post by: keekee on April 28, 2007, 11:38:07 AM

Very cool!

Brent

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Post by: Brad H on April 28, 2007, 11:55:50 AM

Nice.

I bet the sound is super sharp!

Brad

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Post by: Braz on April 28, 2007, 12:30:15 PM

Very nice Nineth. Again you have come up with a winner.

Title: Re: Ivory tone board
Post by: FinsnFur on April 28, 2007, 01:53:09 PM

That IZ pretty slick.
One question, how come you didn't carve the mouth piece out the other way so the call was pointing upward when being blown? Just curious.

Title: Re: Ivory tone board
Post by: ninthinning on April 28, 2007, 02:22:07 PM

Bought twentyfive of these tusks. Screwed up the first two with crooked holes. This one was my third try. Check out BradH's latest antler howler, same thing. Made a bunch of antler calls recently and cut the tone boards both ways. Tone board flows more naturally along the curve, but I agree the horn looks like it should curve upward. The wifes still off to quilting camp so I have one more day to work with this stinky stuff. Thanks for the comments.
9th.

Title: Re: Ivory tone board
Post by: iahntr on April 28, 2007, 03:23:50 PM

:congrats: Very nice little call ! I bet that sucker is loud. :congrats:

Title: Re: Ivory tone board
Post by: Hawks Feather on April 28, 2007, 05:11:12 PM

Neat looking call.

Jerry

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Post by: vvarmitr on April 29, 2007, 07:42:14 AM

That's sooo coool. Are any coming up for sale?

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Post by: Arkyyoter on April 29, 2007, 09:03:05 AM

Pretty neat Eric....man that stuff stinks!!!

Joe

Title: Re: Ivory tone board
Post by: ninthinning on April 29, 2007, 10:20:16 AM

Cut and drilled my forth try to ivory shavings. That's one call out of four tries. Steep learning curve. Thats four 9" warthog tusks for one call. Wifes home today so no more antlers or horns for awhile. The one call I did finish is amazing. I love to play it but it hurts my ears to much. The loudness may be because the three convergent cones on the inside.
Thank you
9th

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