I did build ONE from a pressure cooker, some years back.
But, over the years, at various rummage sales and/or thrift shops, I have acquired NINE pressure cookers, and about as many cooking pots.
What are your tips and techniques for rapidly reformatting them to banjo bodies?
If you use a Teflon pot, it gives you smoother rolls. If you uses one made before 1945, well, you know...
I've used a big frying pan as a resonator before.
Edited by - roydsjr on 02/02/2023 13:37:25
Looking on ebay, there are some older cast aluminum pots that look like they would make good banjo rims—they all have a certain amount of draft, but so did ODE pots. You could get a couple of rims out of one stock pot.
Type in an internet search for bedpan banjos. There’s quite a few.
Here's a basic starter banjo pan
Edited by - Pick-A-Lick on 02/02/2023 16:35:54
LOOKS good, Mr. Lick.
BUT! My guess is that the two dots are at the 12th fret, which means that, since the distance from there to where the strings go over the edge to the tailpiece, is MORE than that, it would not fret true.
Would need a bridge.
No, but I also have aquired a few pots to turn into a banjo...one day. I have some stainless steel camp pots to drop into a mountain banjo
Edited by - banjo roo on 02/03/2023 00:52:36
I think that is exactly where the term banjo 'pot' came from.
This is tempered aluminum. How will you be cutting?
I had one of the Dixies in my shop for new leather tuner washers. Fantastic cookware. Totally post war.
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Originally posted by mike gregoryLOOKS good, Mr. Lick.
BUT! My guess is that the two dots are at the 12th fret, which means that, since the distance from there to where the strings go over the edge to the tailpiece, is MORE than that, it would not fret true.
Would need a bridge.
Mike,
If you enlarge the picture and zoom in you will see that top edge of the back pan rim serves as a bridge so this just might work. Least case it's an interesting wall hanger.
Edited by - Pick-A-Lick on 02/03/2023 04:51:24
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Originally posted by HelixThis is tempered aluminum. How will you be cutting?
I had one of the Dixies in my shop for new leather tuner washers. Fantastic cookware. Totally post war.
FIRST choice: LIGHT SABER
But, since real ones are not yet attainable, and dangerous to use, my second choice is something I already own:
My trusty MILWAUKEE Sawzall, with a metal-cutting blade.
Mike,
Also notice that the frets on the "panjo" are spaced much closer together. Given that standard tuners are used, the space between the nut and and the first fret appear to be not much more than the width of a standard tuner button (as shown). On a standard sized banjo the actual size is approximately double that. It’s possible that a ukulele sized fretboard (or similar) was used to build the panjo pictured.
Mike
Edited by - Pick-A-Lick on 02/03/2023 08:11:11
I spotted it as a uke neck, right off.
Still, it strongly appears to be either a Photoshopped image, or a wall decoration.
I've made banjii out of aluminum fry pans and pressure cookers before, and know whereof I speak.
That pressure cooker panjo must be the noise I hear coming from Wisconsin when there is an east wind. LOL
I’ve tinkered with cigar box 3-string guitars for playing slide. I have a pretty good stash of electric guitar parts so I throw a pickup in the mix. It’s good fun as long as no one loses an eye.
I've made banjos from aluminum frying pans, sauce pans, and my favorite aluminum rim was from a pressure cooker (last photo below). The first photo shows an oddball frying pan (I'm sure this was once "seen on TV") and the banjo next to it was made from this or one similar. I've still got one I want to try to use as a sort of internal resonator rim - if I ever get around to it!
Edited by - Jonnycake White on 02/04/2023 16:23:17
