TED NASSIVERA SR./Staff photo by Joe Phelan

Ted Nassivera Jr. certainly has an understanding wife.

He assembles turkey calls in his computer room in the afternoon. Deliberately, he puts pieces of glass and metal inside a black ring and glues them together. Once he's done that, it's off to the dining room, where he lays them out one by one on the dinner table before heading off to find his wife.

"And then I tell her, 'It looks like we're eating in front of the TV again tonight!'"

Nassivera said on Friday afternoon at the Augusta Civic Center, where he and his father, Ted Nassivera Sr., were plying their wares at the 28th annual State of Maine Sportsman's Show. "My dad will tell you, I don't even have a basement to work in."

But Ted Sr. does, and he spends hours upon hours crafting calls for spring turkey hunting -- latex calls that fit into your mouth and round calls fitted with metal that you strike a small stick against. No fancy machinery to speed the process and, best of all, no corporate America telling them how to build a better mousetrap.

Or, in this case, a better turkey call.

Read the complete story in today's Kennebec Journal.