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Playing Since: 2004

Experience Level: Purty Good

vintagewells has made 1 recent addition to Banjo Hangout

Interests:
[Jamming] [Socializing] [Helping]

Occupation: retired

Gender: Female

Age: 71

My Instruments:
no name aluminum rim Asian banjo - reworked, and set up to be purty good
Little Bear - my own creation
Sleeping Beauty - another of my own creations
36 bracket fretless
Cookie tin banjo
Slingerland tenor
Squirrel Head - another Asian Aluminum rim banjo with a walnut rim insert

Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Stanley Brothers
Benny Martin
Don Reno
Red Smiley

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Created 8/27/2006
Last Visit 3/19/2013

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vintagewells replied to topic 'Kit Banjo' 3/19/2013 5:52:14 AM

vintagewells' Photo Album

1890's banjo project	4 string project banjo	6 String Cookie Tin Banjo	Aluminum Rim Project
Cardboard Banjo	Desert Flowers	Karera Electric Guitaro	Quilts

	More origami 1 comment	Thanksgiving turkey 6 comments	Holloween - Me and my daughters, Erin and Amber 5 comments
	class project in photo editing 2 comments	Heavily compensated sloppy bridge	Little Bear - My first banjo! 1 comment
I can practice anywhere 6 comments	Beaded Racing Bear 2 comments	Back of Peghead	Bridge Detail 1 comment
Tailpiece and End Bolt	Peghead Detail	Back of Cookie Tin Banjo	Side view
Completed Cookie Tin Banjo 5 comments	Detail of top of fretboard and peghead	Thistle in the Rillito River Bed	wild Flowers
Aloe in bloom	Santa Clara Prickly Pear in Bloom 1 comment	SOMETIMES THE FRICTION 5TH TUNER IS HARD TO TURN 1 comment	Position markers ready for mounting
Ebony dowel inserted into wood block	Neck with fret slots cut	Back of peghead.	Peghead. veneered with cutout for inlay
Back of neck during shaping	Side View of neck in process of shaping	End bolt and tailpiece	Heel base
Gluing the ears to the peghead	Top view	Neck rough cut out on band saw and ready for ears	Balsa wood stops to hold fretboard in place during
Pattern glued to neck block	Pattern glued for fretboard	Gluing the neck block	Truss Rod - Neck End
Truss Rod -Heel End	One of these was cut down for the truss rod stop	Center section notched for dowell	Sections for the neck block
Cookie tin and plans(?)	walnut rim installed in aluminum head 1 comment	squirrels on my head 3 comments	Owen and his banjo
Peghead with carved turquoise thunderbird 1 comment	New banjo for my son,Owen. 1 comment	#10 - Top view of finished neck.	#9 - Side view of finished neck
#8 - Back of finished neck	#7 - mahogany fingerboard	#6 - Back of neck blank	#3 - Cut sections glued together 1 comment
#5 - Truss rod in palce and ears glued on peghead	#4 - Three sections glued together	#2 -60 and 45 degree angles for the outside pieces	#1 - 30 and 45 degree angles for center section
Inside the rim 1 comment	Sleeping Beauty's peghead 2 comments	Sleeping Beauty	I couldn't bring this home -
Great source for lumber	The Lawnchair! Now The Sleeping Beauty Banjo	Pattern and ring	Two layers
gluing the sections	Origami "soccer" ball 2 comments	5 intersecting tetrahedrons 2 comments	Decadent dodecahedrons
Some more decadent dodecahedrons 1 comment	Scrappy, my son's fine dog	walnut rim ...	Walnut block rim with ine coat of tung oil 1 comment
Allen and I 7 comments	A good way to spend Thanksgiving day 2 comments	Barkley and me 1 comment	Broken Planetary tuners
	I just can't get this 5th string tuned! 5 comments
		Cardboard banjo #2
			My Brother Peter and his loving wife Peggy
giant Cat float

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