Thread: Wooden duck caller

Hello!!! I stumbled upon your thread and joined to reply. oh my God let me tell you there is only 1 man that could have made that duck call, my Grandfather Albert Wolfe from Amisfield Tokoroa he came with family from Kent England as part of a 13 man engineering crew who started up the No.1 Paper Machine at Kinleith 1951 and became the Training Officer for 24 years! He had a carpentry shed with machines and tools galore. He also taught me how to make them and some of mine were sold as well to NZ and Australia. He was making them from the late 60's to the 80's then he started making childrens toys. I spent endless days with Grandad knee deep in wood chips and sitting sanding, reeding, fitting, testing/tuning, varnishing, stickering & packing into boxes 1000's of them over the years! Sadly after he died in 1999 his 2nd wife sold everything without our consent and there was no trace of any of the machines or tools/callers etc we were too weak to speak up and we all lived elsewhere then were told she had been left everything after making him change his will sad story to be honest I cried when I saw the picture of the precious product. Feel free to message back or email gammon77@hotmail.com to discuss getting it working again. Is there a reed between the mouth pieces or has it been taken out? If you can pull out the mouthpieces you can cut a new piece and place it between and re fit or you can send it to me as a family heirloom I will pay the courier.