Name/Title
Knight & Hale one piece wooden turkey tube call without decorative rings on barrel-shaped bellEntry/Object ID
PTC002A0008Description
After making tube calls with PVC cylinders and pill bottles, Harold Knight continued experimenting with his design, and in 1975, Knight & Hale began to make some wooden tube goose calls. Jack Thomas made all of the early wooden tubes, and Knight glued in the lip stops and applied all the finish. Few woods were used, with walnut being the most common. The pictured call does not have grooving (decorative "rings") on the bell, indicating that it is one of the early one-piece wooden tubes. It also has a green lanyard. That story is fully told in Yelp & Gobble, Inc. by Brent Rogers. The first handmade lanyards they made, before purchasing machine crimping units, were all handmade by David Hale and painted with green John-Deere paint by Eric Mitchell; hence, they refer to the green lanyard pictured as “the John Deere lanyards.” Some of the one-piece tubes had slightly curved bells (barrel-shaped, as pictured), while others had a more straight taper. In 1973-1974, several hundred of these wooden one-piece (hand-turned on a lathe and then drilled out) calls were made from walnut or cherry, and perhaps fewer than thirty from maple; other woods were uncommon.Collection
Brent Rogers collectionCataloged By
Brent RogersCondition
Overall Condition
Very GoodDate Examined
Mar 8, 2026Created By
Brent@awthf.orgCreate Date
March 8, 2026Updated By
Brent@awthf.orgUpdate Date
March 8, 2026
