Build yourself a parts banjo

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Posted by Hazen on Saturday, May 16, 2009

I just got my new parts banjo back from the luthier. I was in need of a good player due to an unfortunate series of events that left me without a good banjo.

Lewis Brandt supplied the neck and Dick Guggenheim supplies a block purple heart thin skirt two piece flange rim. Tommy Joy in Belmont NC fretted the neck along with making the heel cut and the nut. I know that banjo sound is subjective ,but man this banjo sounds great to me. When he started putting this one together I think that there was some doubt in Tommy's mind ,but when I picked it up he was all smiles. Nice bright sound and lots of volume. Nice to see what can happen when you put together a collection of great parts. It is not a Gibson but those 7 lettters do not make me play any better anyway.

This project is really funny because I already had all of these parts just laying around the house and now I have a complete instrument that sounds better than any I have owned and most that I have played.

If you can use any of the guys that I have listed as being suppliers do it. They are all first class folks.

Now for a maple resonator to make it all match.

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