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New Stuff
Me on YouTube -
(Playing a commercial banjo)
A MUCH better homemade tenor banjo -
This is Mark 2,
almost professional standard
A really simple, robust banjo
Perfect for camping trips.
You could make this in the woods
My last project, A lute back banjo
No banjo? Swap the strings round on a guitar
Musical theory
(What! for the banjo?)
Fret Position Calculator
More stuff
Hear the banjo played (badly)
Some beginner tabs
My first banjo
Other Homemade Banjos
A wooden puzzle
Another puzzle
Sharpening Tools
Email me
Link to this site
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Building the banjo
| What you will need
Materials
- Body : 1 strip of any hard wood (I used sapele) size approx 45mm x 12mm x 1metre. (2 inch by 1/2 - 3ft )
- Neck : a length of hard wood approx 45mm x 45mm x 1metre. (2 by 2 - 3ft)
- Tone ring: a length of stainless steel rod 3mm dia (1/8 inch) about a metre
- Head ring: ditto.
- Skin: a piece of PET plastic (polyethylene terapthallate) 30mm square.
WHAT?!
- Tensioners: A strip of stainless steel, 10mm x 1.6mm about 1 metre
Some stainless steel wire at least 1mm dia (TIG welding rod)
8 small screws (3mm) 25mm long
- Saddle: Aluminium or steel plate - about 2mm thick 3 inch square.
- Tuning pegs: - depends how you decide to go.
- Frets: Copper wire, at least 1.6mm diameter.
Tools:
- Wood saw (A bandsaw is even better)
- Wood chisel, Mallet.
- A length of nylon rope.
- Two pairs of pliers and a screwdriver.
- A brazing torch.
- A drill
- A 3mm tap
You will also need:
- Wood Glue, Epoxy resin (slow setting essential - fast also handy).
- Some odds and ends of scrap plastic, wood and aluminium .
- and a bit of improvisation.
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