My neck arrived today. I'm not sure when I will get into any major work since I have so many irons in the fire already, but I will be doing some work here and there and will try to document as much as I can. what you see are, the mahogany neck blank, a "tobacco box" gourd, about 750 yards of "Banjer strings", and the five ebony pegs.
the neck blank isn't really quite long enough and I will have to improvise on the dowel. I'm thinking there should be enough mahogany for the dowel, and some left over for a bridge or two. I have a doe skin in the freezer waiting to be tacked to the gourd, and I ordered some bone nuts from that guy on eBay. If I like the way it wounds with the banjer strings, I may put nylgut on it in the future, but that's another project. All I have left to buy is tacks and a finger board.
Now I have to get to removing everything from that block that isn't a banjo neck.
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on “Gourd Banjo”
edavidt Says:
Friday, March 14, 2008 @1:19:58 AM
Good luck on the project. I started making a gourd banjo a number of years ago, but somehow, it morphed into a banjo with a regular pot! Photos are on my page. Maybe I will try for the gourd banjo again. Dave T.
errantBanjo Says:
Saturday, March 15, 2008 @8:34:19 AM
Awesome Tom!
Can't wait to see the pictures of your progress. Good luck!
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