hi there- ive been dabbling in building for a year or so, and have recently been putting together a grain measure banjo from an old 13" oak grain measure. ive...
I'd recommend drilling small pilot holes in the rim first--you can pretty much push the tacks in by hand by doing it this way. It reduces the risk of...
Dowel sticks seem to come in both round and square/rectangular shape. Is there a preferred way, or is it simply preference? I can see where a square stick in...
... Dave, The majority of open-back banjos that I've seen with dowel sticks (not nearly as large a sample as most others, but...) made in the period from ...
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In a message dated 4/5/04 1:52:15 PM Eastern Daylight Time, quahog@... writes: I guess the construction advantages of a round hole vs. square hole make ......
One big difference that I see between gourd banjos and other banjos is that the pot/rim is not open. There are no sound holes. I have seen one gourd banjo...
I received this post from banjomakers, but it was blank. Was there supposed to be some content or was it a case of pushing the wrong button? Dave Brown ... ...
Well Dave, it all depends on whether you butter your bread on the up side, or the down side. <G> Dr. Seuss OK, more seriously, square dowel sticks are perhaps...
Good evening, Chet. Thanks for the reply. Between band saw, router, table saw, jointer I would think that for me square might be easier. But I don't know...
Wondering about drilling the hole--Does the dowel stick basically run on the same plane as the 3rd string? D Porter Baton Rouge [Non-text portions of this...
Yep, the dowelstick runs down the centerline of the neck (almost the plane of the third string). I use a jig to drill the dowelstick hole--it centers up on...
as anyone on this list can see from the pics of my grain measure banjo that i posted, im still a novice banjo builder. among others things, one of my next...
In a message dated 4/5/2004 2:35:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, quahog@... ... I've seen African banjoid like instrments w/ sound holes. But to answer your ...
I have seen it both ways. Unvented the air is trapped inside the gourd and one would expect dampen the sound somewhat. Vented, the sound would be variable...
Banjo Colleagues, Happy Easter to you all. Well, yesterday I took an old Barratt neck, gave it the Black Epoxy treatment, hoping that I'd be able to sand it...
Lee Valley Tools (on the web) makes a handy sharpener for scapers--a plastic body with a slot to run the scaper thru. No major problem. Just keep the scraper...
... Happy Easter, Lew (and everyone else, of course). I may be a little confused about what's happened to the peghead (not your description's fault; I blame my...
In a message dated 4/11/2004 11:33:08 AM Central Standard Time, ... I think all that is very good advice. Another point--a scraper, not having any kind of...
brooklynbanjoboy <brooklynbanjoboy@...> wrote:Banjo Colleagues, Happy Easter to you all. Well, yesterday I took an old Barratt neck, gave it the Black...
Does anyone have any thoughts on the number of tension hooks required for a rim? What problems is one likely to encounter using 12 versus 24, for example?...
For awhile lots of hooks seemed to equal lots of quality on banjos (at least in people's minds). Fact is that there were plenty of "store tubs" with a...
I don't know the answer, but I'll pass on some speculative reasoning which I picked up somewhere. If you don't have enough hooks, you can't make the head...
