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Canjo Necks

Posted by Madurobob on October 27, 2011 at 11:29pm
This is what led me to CBN. These are several Canjo necks I made for a friend. He asked if I'd ever considered making instruments and mentioned his project teaching music to kids and how he wanted to have canjos for them all to play. Well, I have a barn full of walnut and a love to build things, so I took off. In researching canjos I fond this site and I am totally hooked. I have several nice cigar boxes and piles of wood. Looks like its gonna be a fun winter!
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  • Madurobob March 6, 2012 at 7:14pm

    :) I'll have a bunch of these at Shakori this year,  Whatever I don't sell (perhaps the entire lot) will be donated to my local music teacher friends after the festival.  I really just intend them as booth-fillers.  They really do make good weapons...

  • Bad Finger (Eric) March 6, 2012 at 6:25pm
    Every stick in the hands of a boy quickly becomes a weapon.

    Nice work.
  • Wes "I'm Baaaaack" Yates March 6, 2012 at 5:39pm
    Ugghhh, i never had any luck selling canjos. Hate em
  • Madurobob December 6, 2011 at 10:31am

    I have a lot of short, skinny pieces of walnut I had no idea what to do with up until a few weeks ago.  I much prefer canjo necks to kindling!

  • George "Geo" Gottshall December 6, 2011 at 9:15am

    Talk about kicking a canjo up a notch!!!  Beautiful walnut necks!!  We use primarily poplar and oak for our cbg's. 

  • Dan Sleep October 29, 2011 at 8:48pm
    Wow, those necks turned out really nice!! It's funny you mention weapons, since I built some for my grandkids and they became weapons really quickly.
  • Madurobob October 29, 2011 at 8:03pm
    My friend stopped by today and said the kids loved this first batch.  But, he thinks the necks may be a bit long at 24".  They started to look like weapons in their hands :)

    He asked if I could shorten the next batch to maybe 18".  I said sure, but  I'm kind of addicted to building CBGs now...
  • Lonman October 28, 2011 at 7:43pm
    awesome project. love the necks too. yes, very addicting hobby.
  • Bluesheart October 28, 2011 at 9:14am
    NIce!! I had a blast doing a canjo summer camp for kids. Those are some pretty necks!!
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