Maybe it is just me, but I love to sit there and pick out songs I know or songs people want to play on my Canjo. I own a couple of Canjo Song books from Gitty, and looked around online and found a few, but I thought since this is a community of play
Read more…Post up photos of your tin-tars! These are the ones that look mostly like this:
So I've made a few of this tin can banjo things. Having a blast playing on them. I've made a couple out of empty tin "soup" cans and one out of a beer can. I cut a few other cans to prepare them to go on a neck but my question is this: have you guys
Read more…If you've used an upright can on a chordophone, here's the place to show your work.
I'm looking for an olive oil can right now, one of those really pretty ones from Eastern Europe.
How is intonation on a canjo adjusted? On a CBG you string it up, tune it, check the 0 & 12 frets and adjust the saddle till intonation is correct.
With a canjo where the string is anchored in the end of the can, you have to punch holes in the can t
Read more…25" scale, Maple neck, yellow heart fret board and head details, birch head laminate. Gitty hard tail, tuners and humbucker. Volume knob is cork with bottle top. Botticelli Olive Oil can. A lot of fun building this one!
Read more…2stringer with Maple, Paduk, good size can for a decent sound. Wood is all scraps from previous builds...
Read more…I bought a 2 string canjo from a guy called Greg at Elstead'15 a brilliant build as were his 3 string CBG's. It has a chromatic fretted neck and this may seem a naive question but how do I use 3 string music tabs? At the moment I have it tuned to D G
Read more…I want to build a Can Jo for a child, what would the best scale length be? I am thinking of around 15-18 inches.
Read more…I was curious if anyone had used a 16oz steel powder can as a resonator and if so if they had any tips to pass along. Mine are all this style:http://www.zoro.com/i/G1191793/?category=8628#imagePopUp
Read more…ok,i've read somewhere on cbn about fitting a mag pup inside the lid on the tin,my question is-does it need to be under the strings or is anywhere as effective, the bracing i fitted won't let me place the pup near the strings.
i can't re-locate the b
Read more…Hey guys i picked up a tin for a banjo but when i go home i realized i dont have tin snips.....ive got some old wire cutters that should work but im lost at where to cut the tin . down the side like a box ? cut out a hole ? i have a problem with over
Read more…just finished a tinjo when i cut the can i left the brim intact but still was able to cut out the grove for the neck to pass through this way the brim can act as a ring tone i found that this eleminates the (twang) you get from the vibration when pla
Read more…Looking at the picture for this group and numerous other places I see people designing with circular holes cut into headstocks and the shaft of the tuner running through. I see the advantages to this approach being ease of construction and getting a
Read more…I asked this question on a previous post, but I'd like to start a discussion here as well.
What to use for string?
I've used actual guitar string, makes a canjo sound very metallic, almost like a guitar.
I've also used a lot of fishing line, really h
Read more…I'm from Italy, sorry for my poor english. I express myself with photos, hope will be clear my idea. One photo show an old hot water bottle, roughly 100 years old. I opened it carefully, and now I have 2 halves. My idea is to use the wooden guitar b
Read more…Hi Gang! Are there any major disadvantages to attaching the can vertically to the stick? My idea is a neck through the can type design using a banjo style bridge and the bottom of the can as the sound board.
Read more…Hello, I'm new to the group.I've been follwoing CBN for over a year now and have built 3 stringer cbg,dulcimer and diatonic strummers. Finally joined CBN about a month ago. Thought I;d try a Canjo.
what scale length to use?
bridge placement? or is t
Read more…The first CanJo I saw was abt 3-4 years ago my first impression was that they were not very loud.
If you were in a noisy room you could hardly hear it.
I saw and played one in early Sept this year with a hollowed out piece of wood abt 3-4" in diame
Read more…Morning folks,have any of you good people tried fitting a ressonator cone to a cookie tin. I was thinking most dobros are metal so why shouldn't it work, I would welcome yout thoughts on the subject.Mal (UK)
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