gobblinglawyer
Senior Member
Here's a few pictures of a turkey beard board that I built last week.
The board is a piece of antique heart pine out of one of the barns at my farm. You should have seen the board before I planed it with my father-in-law's planer. It looked horrible. I can't believe it cleaned up so well. Then I cut off 17 shotgun shells (all had killed turkeys) at 1 1/4 inches, cut small notches in the shells to hold the beards and popped the primers out. Then I drilled 17 holes 3 inches apart and fastened the beards and shells to the board with 1 1/2 inch #6 brass screws. You can hardly see 'em when you look at the board. They fit flush right in where the primer was.
I have another 20 or so beards (a few of them are jakes, though) that I'm planning to do the same thing with. Just waiting on my next trip to Natchez, Mississippi (where my father-in-law lives).
The board is a piece of antique heart pine out of one of the barns at my farm. You should have seen the board before I planed it with my father-in-law's planer. It looked horrible. I can't believe it cleaned up so well. Then I cut off 17 shotgun shells (all had killed turkeys) at 1 1/4 inches, cut small notches in the shells to hold the beards and popped the primers out. Then I drilled 17 holes 3 inches apart and fastened the beards and shells to the board with 1 1/2 inch #6 brass screws. You can hardly see 'em when you look at the board. They fit flush right in where the primer was.
I have another 20 or so beards (a few of them are jakes, though) that I'm planning to do the same thing with. Just waiting on my next trip to Natchez, Mississippi (where my father-in-law lives).
