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PorkChop wrote:I pick up my call and blow it. Who knows if the reed is upside down, down side up, sideways or whatever. It’s all the same to me and the birds!
Duck Engr wrote:I notice it makes a difference more with my mondo and singleton than j frames. my singleton is very sensitive to it. Took me several off-seasons of piddling with it to figure out the best way for me to operate it at least.
I’m not too proud to admit it’s possibly the Indian and not the arrow.Rick wrote:Duck Engr wrote:I notice it makes a difference more with my mondo and singleton than j frames. my singleton is very sensitive to it. Took me several off-seasons of piddling with it to figure out the best way for me to operate it at least.
Guess we, and they, are all a bit different. After losing the first, I'm on my second LA Cut Singleton and was tickled to find its toneboard could be tuned to run just as I had the first. Which isn't always the case, even with CNC. Its low end is versatile enough that I mess with a lot of spitty feeds with drag and bouncing "refuge feed" type notes, and when full of spit, I can lock it up on some other low stuff, most notably drake dweebs.
Doesn't stick on anything important to me and takes but a common feed note or two to break it free, so it's not a big thing, but I did experiment with toneboard orientation in that regard. Up, down or sideways made no difference. Just a quirk I don't mind living with.
(Had an "old style," half-scroll Daisy Cutter that would air lock on the quiet single clucks and chucks I like to do between more meaningful things when birds are working close. So I sent it back to Jim to see if he could fix that, and he was soon on the phone saying he'd sanded a bit but would rather send me a different insert than take a chance on screwing that one's otherwise special tone up. "No, thanks. I'll live with it.")
Re: the Mondo, after trimming Jim's tuning down to something better handled by my light ass, it was my pick of three cutdowns I acquired at the same time, and I kept it for three seasons without ever noticing a toneboard orientation issue. (Never got it to run as loose as the Singleton, either.)
Maybe why they put so many different tunes in a juke box...
Duck Engr wrote:I’m not too proud to admit it’s possibly the Indian and not the arrow.
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