DVD-quality lessons (including tabs/sheet music) available for immediate viewing on any device.
Take your playing to the next level with the help of a local or online banjo teacher.
Weekly newsletter includes free lessons, favorite member content, banjo news and more.
I’ve been wanting to do this forever… but haven’t found a round-tuit yet. If I was a good woodworker, I would make a heel block that mounts to the banjo, and then screw the unmodified neck to the heel block.
Also check out my unmodified telecaster, strung with 5 strings, a method I’ve been using for over 20 years, for hundreds of hours of silent banjo practice. I just eliminate the 6th string, and then use a .010 string for the 5th string. I run it through the 6th string nut slot, to get it out of the way, and make the open position finger more banjo like…. But at the bridge, the strings are normally spaced for proper picking.
If I were ever to put an electric guitar neck permanently on a banjo, I would not modify it, but would make a new nut for some nice wide 5 string spacing, I would run the 5th string full length, and then just spike it at the 5th.
If you want to mount that neck on a standard banjo rim, I reckon it could be done fairly easily-- you'd have to make a big old block of a "heel", fitted to the pot with co-rods or a dowel stick. It would have to be big enough to have a standard neck mortise routed into the top of it (in the right place to put the bridge where you want it on the head!). What wouldn't be easy is making it something other than real clunky looking and strangely balanced.
Terms of Use | Privacy Policy | Privacy Consent (EU/GDPR Only)
Copyright 2026 Banjo Hangout. All Rights Reserved.