NORTH CAROLINA "LIMITED EDITION" CUSTOM DELUXE CALL
Eastern Red Cedar lid inlaid with Mother of Pearl Dogwood
blossom with Green Abalone Pearl center and the North Carolina State outline
in Red Abalone Pearl with strutting turkey in Green Abalone Pearl
with etching/engraving for feather detail. Call body is one piece
carved with inlaid wood purflings (marquetry) on each side.
Black Walnut from West Virginia. Eastern Red Cedar wood is from Anson County,
North Carolina locally cut and air dried several years before
processing.
Price for the North Carolina "Limited Edition" Custom Deluxe call is
$ 500.00
plus $15.00 shipping which requires a $ 50.00
non-refundable deposit with current delivery time running between
one to two years. Total cost plus sales tax and shipping = $
550.00.
NOTE: This call is no longer available!
Price and specifications subject to change without
notice.
Above prototype call
presented to our son Bill Jr. on
07-09-16.
"DUAL HENS" CUSTOM PAINTED CALL
Below yellow poplar box call painted by
Barnie Slice of Pawleys Island, SC on
11-19-15 while visiting my friend and customer Jim Norris at his shop in Wallace, SC.
Barnie did the painting in less than 15 minutes, a good guesstimate.
Barnie Slice is an incredible artist for sure. Total cost plus
shipping is: $ 386.50.
The above box call is a special order and normally not kept in stock and
no longer available.
The above prototype call belongs to Gary Hasenfus of Lake Lure, NC.
OPTIONAL BOX CALL EMBELLISHMENTS
Optional mother of pearl and abalone pearl inlay designs available
for both sides, top and ends.
Example of a Special Prototype Lid commissioned and not for sale at this time.
Green mother of pearl vine inlay and border of Green Abalam pearl.
Note: This lid was not cut and inlaid by Bill Porter, but used
as a master pattern! David Nichols of
Custom
Pearl Inlay inlaid this lid and set the bar
very high. This is an example from a Master inlayer at the top of
the craft/art!
Price and specifications subject to change without notice.
Special medallion inlaid in Eastern Red Cedar lid that has many small
beautiful knots adding to the elegance of this call. Customer provided
the medallion for this call, whereas various motifs and emblems can be
inlaid into the lid.
The above call made from
Sassafras wood from Kentucky with the
Eastern Red Cedar
wood from Anson County, North Carolina. Call made for a special
friend of mine, Quinton Thompson of Mt. Gilead, NC. and he requested that
the Captain Insignia bars be used instead of the Eagle Medallion.
This call will probably see more service in his Call Display Case than
in the woods knowing Quinton.
Sassafras wood gives off a wonderful aroma when carving, sanding, etc.
and one of my favorite woods to create a call out of. I have not
seen any
Sassafras trees here in Anson County large enough to
make anything except the old-timey "toothbrushes" and the
Old Timers would boil the roots from the
small bushes to make Sassafras tea. However, one hunter here
in Anson County, NC stated that he has seen the Sassafras tree about as large
as your leg.
Click on the turkey
icon for a sound clip of this call played on 03-08-12.
Above, an Eastern Red Cedar lid from wood harvested in Anson County,
NC and inlaid with colorful iridescent mother of pearl with the cedar wood stained
black for contrast. I am using one of Sid Bell's original
copyright design pewter
turkey track medallions
to keep the turkey hunting theme going. Plan to place the lid on
one of my
black walnut body turkey box calls and this custom call will probably
see more time in my display cabinet than in the turkey woods. No finish applied to the lid yet.
BILL PORTER'S SHOW CASE CALL
I inlaid the above lid a long time ago and finally got around to
putting it on a call base worthy of the lid. This call will be for
my display case, however I might call an ole long beard in just for fun
and not fire a shot!
NOTE: The above call given to our son William M. Porter,
Jr. as a birthday gift, July 2023.
WALNUT ON WALNUT
The above call was
gifted to Cayden Williams of Gold Hill,
NC on 11-28-2023.
SYCAMORE WITH CEDAR LID
One of the above sycamore calls was gifted to Darryl Tharp of Union, MO
on 12/26/2023.
OSAGE ORANGE WITH CEDAR LID
MAHOGANY WITH CEDAR LID
PORTER CUSTOM CALLS GOING SILENT
When my current inventory of turkey box calls are sold, I do
not plan to manufacture any additional calls. See my
Turkey
Box Call Construction page for additional information.
Web page updated by Bill aka Mickey Porter on 07-22-2022 and
05-01-2024.
NOTE: Many have asked if my calls have won any awards,
etc. of which I have never entered a call into a call maker's contest.
I have donated probably 20 times as many calls than I have sold to
various NWTF chapters for fund raisers, various organizations and
individuals and have a few current owners turning down offers many times
what they originally paid for their call which
speaks for itself! Those individuals had the opportunity to come
by my shop and hand pick a call from my personal inventory to satisfy
their specific requirements. I currently have a small inventory
of my "dual hens" field grade
model calls to choose from. The bottom line, my calls will
lure wild turkeys in if used properly and are suitable for call
collectors as well.
I no longer donate calls to NWTF chapters or support the organization
due to alcoholic bars set up with free drinks as a means to
inebriate potential high dollar spenders and bidders at their banquets.
This is a disgusting and immoral way to conduct business to raise money in my
humble opinion! Also, the usage of
"bar maids" (literally and figuratively) to serve the drinks and assist in the auction is
low class. When you are
of the world, this is a normal protocol.
Updated by Bill aka Mickey Porter 05-18-15, 11-19-15, 02-15-17,
09-12-17 and 06-01-2022.
LEAVING ON A
SPIRITUAL NOTE
If you do not know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, please take
this moment to accept him by Faith into your Life, whereby Salvation
will be attained.
Ephesians 2:8 - 2:9 8 For by grace are ye saved through
faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: 9 Not of
works, lest any man should boast.
Hebrews 11:1 “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen.”
Romans 10:17 “So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by
the word of God.”
Open this
link about faith in the King James
Bible.
Romans 10:9 “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the
Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him
from the dead, thou shalt be saved.”
Open this
link of Bible Verses About Salvation,
King James Version Bible (KJV).
Hebrews 4:12 “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and
sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder
of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of
the thoughts and intents of the heart.”
Romans 6:23 “For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of
God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
Romans 3:23 “For all have sinned, and come short of the glory
of God;”
Micah 6:8 “He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what
doth the LORD require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and
to walk humbly with thy God?”
Philippians 4:13 "I can do all things through Christ which
strengtheneth me."
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