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Playing Since: 1986
Experience Level: Novice
smijmk has made 210 additions to Banjo Hangout
Interests:
[Teaching] [Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]
Occupation: Coal Miner....Retired
Gender: Male
Age: 52
My Instruments:
Smitty Smithtone #1
1928 Gibson TB-1 Conversion
Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Lonesome River Band,IIIrd time out,Blue Highway,J.D.Crowe&Tony Rice,Jim Reed&Friends,and Eddie Ray Hagger,Jessie Hagger...I like all music and appreciate the effort and time one has to invest in it ......
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Created 1/22/2009
Last Visit 11/20/2009
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Friday, November 06, 2009 @5:20:54 AM
Hi every one..Let me introduce myself...
I am Smitty Smith the maker and builder of the Smitty Smithtone Banjo's....I have owned a couple Gibson banjo's,Fender,Silvertone and Epiphone....but always ended up trading them off or selling them ....I would quit picking a yr. or two start back quit again you know how it is ..So I eventually ended up with out a banjo ha!!!!! So I decided to try and make me one. I practised on a 2x4, cut it out and shaped a neck from it ...Turned out pretty good so I thought I could probably do this ...My dad and I went up into the Hills here in eastern Ky. where I live and found a maple tree that had fallen down and we sawed it up into 32 inch lengths and I had it cut at a saw mill into 2 inch strips and it turned out to be curly maple...So I made me a neck out of it...cut my pearl I had found on ebay, put it in a finger board I had got from 1st Quality Music. Then I got me some old maple barn boards and made me a block rim from them ...Took a lot of fiquring but I got'er done ha!!!!! .Then I oder'd the tonering V20-Kulesh and all the other hardware .Got a Cox resonator and stained it and the neck and then lacqured it and been pickin it ever since...That is how I started making banjo,s just thought I would share this with ya ...You just never know what u are capable of doing unless you give it a try ...We are all blessed with many hidden talents....Thanks for taking the time to read this and hope it will encourage someone.....Smitty
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