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Cigar Box Banjo

Posted by Jim Junksville Sharkey on March 13, 2011 at 6:30am
Made from parts ranging from old cooker hob rings to air conditioning ducts and plumbers gromets
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Tags: 5string, banjo, box, can, cigar, gas, remo
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  • Jon Pruett April 8, 2011 at 2:53pm
    That's beautiful!! I love the binding and ring and tail and bridge and....
  • Jim Junksville Sharkey April 1, 2011 at 8:49am

    Thanks for the 5 stars!! I shall get a video up so you can check out the sound.

    From something made from a cooker ring and a piece of old chimney flue, she don't half bad!!

  • charles kimbler March 23, 2011 at 5:37pm
    No stars???I love this great idea bet it sounds crazy.You get 5-stars from me
  • Jim Junksville Sharkey March 13, 2011 at 1:22pm

    Thanks CJ. I used a french type polish, it was like a runny sort of wax then buffed it up with a car polisher attatched to a cordless drill. If you build it up in layers it comes up great, takes a while though!

    I'll see if I've still got the container and find a name for you

  • C.J. Blues March 13, 2011 at 1:12pm
    I love the binding around the edges. How did you get such a nice gloss finish? I usually use a low-tech matte or satin finish because I've never been able to achieve a professional looking gloss finish like yours.
  • Jim Junksville Sharkey March 13, 2011 at 9:41am

    Thanks for the comment Steve.

    The head is a banjo one and seems fine with the pressure. Underneath it is a section of an air duct tube I sawed off which also acts like a tone ring. The steel fixing ring on top is a cooker hob ring with holes drilled in which then screw into the vent and pulls the whole thing together. Next time I change the strings I'll post up a photo with the box open, so you can see what I mean.

  • Slowpaw Steve T March 13, 2011 at 9:05am
    Excellent build, perfect finish!   how does the Remo head (drum or banjo?) cope with the string pressure on the bridge - like a drum head it must have needed to be pretty tight, was wondering about doing something like this myself in the future. (-;
  • Dan Sleep March 13, 2011 at 8:49am
    I mean, wow!!! That is impressive!!
  • Dan Sleep March 13, 2011 at 8:49am
    Wow!!!!
  • Jim Junksville Sharkey March 13, 2011 at 8:41am

    Thanks for the comment Scott, she was a bit of a tricky build as there was a lot of working out to do.

    But now she's sounding sweet.

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