Have a mountain banjo and need some more tension on the head. Can I resoak it again ? 20 minutes or so in cold water and reuse it, or is the elasticity gone out of it after one stretch?
I think that just warming the skin with a handheld hair drier may accomplish the same as wetting it and letting it dry to whatever the humidity level is where you live
Hide generally retains most of its elasticity through wetting, stretching, and drying. If your "mountain banjo" is made the way I've seen them (hide tacked to the back of the front ring, and stretched over thin sheet metal (stovepipe or tin can), I'd worry some about that sharp metal edge cutting into the head and making it prone to tearing there when it gets re-stretched, but if that's not a problem on yours, I don't see why you couldn't detach and reinstall that head to tighten it.
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