I could bend this right around.” So, what it was is inside the birchbark there’s oil. And by the time I remembered, the heat from the fire, I grabbed the birchbark, which was laying on top of the stove, but it was like a piece of rubber. And I had this nice piece of birchbark laying on top of my woodstove. So, how do you bend a piece of bark that’s very rigid, stiff, dry, and if I try to bend it, it will crack? I had a nice piece of birchbark. But as I’ve learned over time, even if it’s 10 years old, you can still use it if you know how to. But if it’s 10 years old, it’s like very, very stiff and hard. And again, when you’re working with birchbark, if it’s fresh off the tree, it bends very easily. Grey birch is darker, and it doesn’t have the loose paper on it.
A lot of times you can tear that paper off. White birch can be used for many things, but it has a paper on the outside. And I thought, “Well, there’s nothing that I know of that’s called grey birch.” But now I know exactly what he meant. My father always told me the best bark is grey birch. The bark we use for canoes, some of it’s called white birch. So, the bark is turned inside out, so the white, white bark is inside there, as you can see. A lot of our old chairs were made with witherod. I use sometimes witherod. Witherod is a wood that bends very easily, and it doesn’t crack. That’s what I use to make containers, or little things, but also moose calls.Ī lot of times I use young saplings. The interesting thing, I use a lot of leftover bark from my canoe projects-the pieces that I don’t use.
And it can’t go through because that piece of wood, you see. A lot of people say, “Well, that’s the strongest moose call we’ve ever seen.”īecause I have a piece of wood in here, and then I have all this spruce root that’s wrapped around. Because I don’t usually make moose calls like anybody else. I pretty well taught myself, and as a canoe builder, I make a strong moose call.
#Moose calls or moose sounds how to#
Nobody really taught me how to make a moose call, but my father told me how my great-grandfather made a moose call.
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