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# Face of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/face-of-the-day-1584/
- Published: 2026-09-20T18:30:24.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-20T18:30:23.000Z
- Description: The long-term goal is to crack the US and make enough money to buy his own farm, where he can run cattle and sheep and host hunting tours.
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: Face of the Day

> Josh Parton has found his calling.  
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> The Hawke’s Bay 17-year-old makes hand-crafted wooden duck callers that are, well, flying out the door.  
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> He sold 150 of the $229 callers in his first year, 2024, another 200 last year and has sold 500 already this year as he eyes the US, where the lucrative duck-hunting market dwarfs New Zealand’s.  
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> “There’s a potential market in the USA in the millions compared to about 10,000 duck hunters each season in New Zealand,” Parton says.  
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> Each caller is made from two types of wood – African black wood and New Zealand Marie hard wood, with the black wood used to make the all important tone board.  
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> “Each one is hand-sanded and the tone board is hand-filed and tuned till I get a sound I’m happy with,” Parton says. \[...\]  
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> “I wondered how they worked, so one day I opened mine up and wrecked it, figured out it looked quite simple, so I thought I’d make one.”  
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> Not long after that Cyclone Gabrielle tore through Hawke’s Bay and flooded the Parton family home in Waiohiki, wrecking Josh’s woodwork equipment and forcing him to start again.  
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> He used his insurance money to invest about $5k in new equipment and got to work.  
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