I am sure this question has been answered many times before, so I hope you will have patience with me. I'm an experienced banjo buidler who is building his...
I play both four and five-string banjos, and I find the four string easier to play. Having said that, I prefer to play my five string because(as Brian adeptly...
Hi Dan, Here's my process, and I have successfully used it on gourds and grain measure type instruments, and your rim should be at least as strong as a gourd...
Back when I was playing with my old band, the Buzzard Rock String Band, we often performed jazz influenced numbers that worked better with a four-string than a...
Anybody know where I can get some tailpiece gut? It is really just a short piece of really thick gut string, about 1.5 to 2 mm in diameter. I know several...
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Wow! Terrific site. Thanks for the link. Unfortunately, I doubt that a pre-cut length of tailpiece gut for a violin would work on my big ol' gourd banjo. Maybe...
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Brian, Lately for my tailpiece gut I have been using old bass G strings from a local violin maker/repair shop. They will generally give it away or sell at a...
... A violin repair shop or supplier will have real gut, or synthetic gut with self threading stop nuts to attach the synthetic. Stew-Mac has the nylon for ...
Ummmm........ I am somewhat reluctant to mention this because it departs from any tradition that I know of, but plastic electrical ties, available in many...
How about a weed eater nylon ? ... From: "Carroll Smith" <bongo@...> To: <banjomakers@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:13 AM Subject:...
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I like building dipper-gourd banjos (I drone on about it here: www.northerndipper.com/news31.php) Lately though I've been having bad luck getting gourds to...
Rob, They are well worth the purchase price. So a rental would be worth your time. I own a set and have watched it many times. Chuck Chuck Lee Banjo Company ...
I haven't tried it but on other stringed instruments they use linings inside. Maybe you could put a lining of willow inside, it's the most flexible wood that...
I just mounted a skin head on a gourd for the first time. I had no idea what I was doing, so I made something up. I bought a small wire drill (#54) in the...
Scott, I've never dipped into ones that small but, just off the top of my gourd, two things occur to me. If you have enough hide over the edge (down the side)...
Hello, Brian, quite a few high-end violin & cello builders are now using braided kevlar cord for a gut. In some cases, including a couple of my violins, it...
I measured the tailpiece gut on my Flesher minstrel at 0.0635", which is just over 1.5 mm I think. The Flesher has real gut. I don't need real gut for this...
Stand up basses and cellos use wire. ... From: "Brian Kimerer" <briankimerer@...> To: <banjomakers@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 6:09...
Dear Makers of Banjo Things: What will take the Remo trademark off of a frosted head without marring the surface? Thanks, Lew -- Lew Stern Chief Surgeon Little...
The trick is to remove the ink from the coating without removing the coating from the plastic. When I tried it (once) scraping very carefully with an Exacto...
On my tackhead I used some wire looped around a few times. I also used a little bit of the skin that I had trimmed off the head to wrap around the wire to...
I haven't had trouble with that, I just take my time "working" the point into the wall. The problem that I come up with is trying to keep the tailpiece from...
Hey Brian There is a kind of lacing twine used to bind cables... found it in a techie surplus store in Orlando ... it is sort of off white ... looks "natural"...
cas, Thanks for the offer. I am hoping to string up the banjo for the first time this weekend, so I think I will go with a local solution. I went digging...
