Lagrue Drake Whistle

Below is an order recently shipped. Its new owner was very happy on delivery.

Paduak Drake whistle with Heavishot brass. Oil and wax finish. Great sounding whistle.

You need one on your lanyard - Email me at Lagrue AT Hotmail.com (replace the At with an @ symbol).

Another Speck Call Finished

Finished this Speck call for my father. He's been itching to get a good call in his hands and put the hammer down on some specks this season. This is the 5th iteration of my speck call design. I feel like I'm getting the design set and will have something available in the near future based on the success of this one.

This call is in Bois D'arc with a paduak lamination and a Arkansas black walnut cap, set up with double brass orbits.

Two New Calls!

I've made duck calls for 29 years now. During that time, I've varied the design a bit, but settled on 4 basic designs, of which I now still build 3.

In the past few years however, my farm in Arkansas has been covered in Specklebelly geese! Frankly at times, they outnumber the mallards on the farm. My father has gone headlong into this with full decoy setups and even bought a couple Speck calls to mess with.

To that end, I had to get those 'mass produced' calls off his lanyard, and it was time for me to get into the Specklebelly business. I've now made a few prototypes, each being modified multiple times. I've used two completely different internal component sets.

Through all of this, I've finally found a setup that gives the best balance of controllability and ease of use (not being hard to blow!). The final prototype is below, in Santos Rosewood with Bois D'arc cap and Paduak stripe.

 

 

The second new call is my new drake whistle. Pretty simple call, but it does a lot. It works as a drake mallard and pintail whistle as well as a teal call. Drake whistles have grown in popularity in the past 10 years because they work! The prototype below is made of Paduak with Winchester brass.

 

 

 

Put these two calls together along with one of my single reed duck calls and you have the perfect Mississippi Flyway combination.





Three new Little Lagrue's almost finished.

Three new Little Lagrue calls almost completed.

 

Crosscut Bois D'arc with African Blackwood and Paduak. Double Brass accents. 

 

Cocobolo with Bolivian Rosewood with Brass accents. 

 

High figured Claro Walnut with African Blackwood Caps and Brass accents. Will get a gloss finish in a couple days.