Just wanted to add an update as to what's happening in the land of one armed banjo building! Just completed a number of tubaphone tone ring assemblies and made...
I'll be away from the computer for approx. a week. If anyones needs any more details re the new tone rings, just leave an e-mail message and I'll reply when I...
I had really high interest rates on my home loan. I saved thousands of dollars on home payments. And you can too. Interest rates are as low as can be, And Yes...
I just had given to me a nice chunk of purple heart. It is 2.75"x3.75" and 36.25" long. It is solid with no checking at either end. Will this make a good...
Purpleheart makes a good neck. It gives a banjo a little sharper sound as opposed to mellower, but it also brings out the lower frequencies well and seems to...
Tim Smith ( Timmo_1949@... ) http://userweb.suscom.net/~timmo_1949/ I was cruising the web and ran into a listing that made me go back and look at your...
hi. i have taken an interest in trying to learn to play the banjo. i'm 35 and still feel i can do it. i've got 2 kids that i want to start becoming more...
this is in response to my previous email 1659 on some pics on my banjo. i just posted some pics under the Photos section of the message board here. the album...
i just went through some of the pics on the photos section and WOW! i hope i'm not offending anyone with my cheapy banjo questions... those are very...
Hi folks, We're currently using 99% of our storage space on the photos section. As listowner I can remove just the full-sized version of the images stored...
Welcome to the group. You will find alot of good folks here who really like making banjers. You going to subject those poor innocent children to the...
Yo, banjo makers... So I just returned from a trip to the local specialty hardwood store, where I picked up three neck blanks from the ends bin. One maple, ...
Dear Banjo Makers, In response to Mr. Hutton's comments: I just tried working with poplar. My own view: 1. I don't like the way it sands. It gets fuzzy on...
Rob, Yes, that is how I've made all of my homemade banjo necks-not a problem yet. LD Rob Hutten <rob@...> wrote: Yo, banjo makers... So I just returned...
... Try hitting it with a spit-coat (1/2# cut) of shellac first. And use a non-loading paper (that's the white-backed stuff). I should mention that I ...
Andrew Beals
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Jul 6, 2004 5:29 pm
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Andrew, Excellent ideas, great recommendations. I appreciate your taking the time. Take care, Lew...
Hi again, I decided to put up a page detailing the progress of my gourd banjo project. The page is here: http://www.hutten.org/rob/gourdbanjo/ Further...
rob - to my eyes, this banjo looks great so far. ive only finished one gourd banjo myself, and i always enjoy following along with each step when someone has...
hi all - heres the deal with the latest deal. ive been leaning more towards the idea of "classical" banjo lately; or maybe i should just say that the mellower...
... My do-everything-by-hand-like-the-old-guys-did woodworker brother swears by scrapers over sandpaper. I've been thinking that sandpaper might never touch...
I use scrapers a lot, but not exclusively. If used and sharpened properly, they'll leave a smooth-as-glass surface that you'll never get from sandpaper. They...
I love my scraper. It leaves a smooth, as opposed to 'soft' finish on soft and hard woods. LD My do-everything-by-hand-like-the-old-guys-did woodworker...
Jay--- To pull frets, you use a pair of flush-cut wire dykes that have been carefully ground so that the face that touches the fretboard has "no relief." This...
Yup, properly honed and handled scrapers "cut" the grain, whereas sandpaper "abrades" it, leaving it fuzzy. Of course if you sand down to a fine enough grit...
Hi folks, I'm considering reinforcing the gourd for my current banjo project with a thin strip of steam-bent hardwood glued inside the gourd's rim. Has anyone...
To stiffen the inside of a thin shelled gourd on a Vietnamese Instrument I once repaired, I used layers of yellow carpenters glue. Worked ok. The autobody...
Neat idea about the hardwood. Will it extend up past the shell of the gourd to make a rim on which to tighten the skin? One of the biggest culprets of a gourd...
... I think I got it from a Foxfire book, but my memory's not to be trusted. ... I wasn't thinking that, no. My plan was to have the strip flush with the rim...
I have no experience with this, but would think soaking strips of thin cloth in hide glue (or strong Knox gelatine) and lining the inside of the gourd with...
