This is the first banjo I built. The head is a cookie tin, and the neck is a poplar board. I used a pencil for the bridge and the nut, ukulele strings. The tuners came from the flea market. It was confiscated by my grandson about five minutes after I finished. There was a lot I didn't know at the time (still true). One of the strings was almost to short, and the neck is much to long for a soprano uke. It is however, almost the exact scale of a baritone uke, I wish I had known that when I bought strings. Ethan played with this for a month or two then it ended up in my closet where I found it this morning. I managed to get him to pose for a few pictures but nowdays he want to play my banjo or my fiddle.
if anyone is interested I put some photos of the canjo on my photo page.
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BryanWB Says:
Sunday, March 9, 2008 @6:51:12 AM
Hi Tom - yes please! Let's see some pics please. Best wishes. Bryan
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