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I just put up pics of the 2 banjos I mounted hide heads to. I mounted a medium thickness goat skin head on the Stew-Mac banjo 2 1/2 years ago. I mounted a thin goat skin hide on my Bob Flesher Promenade May, 2014. In the pictures, I put the previous mylar heads next to the banjos with the goat skin heads. The Stew-Mas had a Stew-Mac 5 Star frosted head. The Promenade and a Fiberskin head. I also tried to get a picture of the flesh hoop area. I used a bent hanger. The imprecise circle of shirt hanger wire didn't quite show in the picture. Both heads are working very well. It took about 6 months for them to settle in well, and for me to get the courage to tighten them properly. At this time, no tears, no unraveling of the hide around the flesh hoop. To those who want to try this themselves, the hide is like a piece of spagetti. When it is wet, it is soft and pliable. When it dries, it actually gets hard and stiff. It will not unravel from the round wire flesh hoop.
I hope this inspires some of the members to try a do-it-yourself project for a hide head on one of their banjos.
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