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Permalink Reply by Derek Rose on May 31, 2019 at 3:46am

Looks great!

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on June 3, 2019 at 12:40pm

Hi, Just thought I'd post the start of the build of the matching CBG to this banjo, same materials but not so fancy. 

I gave the lady her banjo lesson and when she tried this one she wanted to buy it, but how do you price something that is a "One Off " unrepeatable instrument. So I had to decline. I can make her one but the making of the neck adds so much time to a normally quick build. But I'll give it a go. I have a nice piece of Oak with a great fiddle back grain pattern.

Taff

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Permalink Reply by Tim Pannabecker on June 8, 2019 at 11:02am

That is an amazing result for a single day.  It looks like it took a good deal of forethought and the patina is really great.  Sweet banjo brother

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Permalink Reply by Mike Parker on June 9, 2019 at 6:40am

It looks awesome. Do you have a sound file?? I would love to hear it!

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Permalink Reply by Taffy Evans on June 10, 2019 at 11:20am

Thanks Tim and Mike. Tim most of the forethought was done on previous cbg builds and adapted to this banjo build. Believe it or not I spent more time changing the size of the 5th string peg hole in the neck, than most other tasks.

Mike, I'm not a banjo player so any demo's would be very basic, but I'll try. As you would expect it's tone is more akin to frailing style banjo than a bluegrass one.

Taff

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Permalink Reply by Brian Revels on June 11, 2019 at 5:28am

It looks great. I have a "farm fresh" banjo some friends gave me. The tuner knobs are almost completely dry-rotted. The neck has a slight twist in it, but still sounds and plays decent (though I am not a banjo player): https://youtu.be/7h-T56kBXD8

Sadly, two years later I haven't spent the money (they are expensive and I am cheap) to replace the tuners or the strings (not as expensive).

I still have several boxes and tins that I want to copy the neck for. The neck is surprisingly thin (only about as wide as a 1x2). Seeing your banjo gives me that much more hope I can do this (and should). 

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Permalink Reply by Gervase Gallant on June 15, 2019 at 1:33am

Nice! The shellac and wax on the pallet wood worked out great...  

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