Cookie-tin Tenor Banjo WIP
I've been working on this little cookie-tin tenor banjo off and on for a couple months now, it's getting dangerously close to being finished so I thought I'd post a pic or two. It's made from all...
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Thought I'd add, there's a great tutorial about making these instruments available online: http://www.mimf.com/archives/cookietin_banjo.htm . I purchased my fretwire at www.stewmac.com , and used a...
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cool....I'll have to check out the video. are you going to cut any kind of hole in the top...( bottom ) of that cookie tin...??? Quills
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Orien,I was going to ask how to do this with a few large gourds 10-12" I have. My wife has a nice baritone ukele and I want to make something to match it more or less out of left over materials I...
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orien M,What kind of strings are you going to put on that banjo? I listened to those audio files above and was very impressed with the sound of those instruments. I think they were all using nylon...
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Thanks for the comments! I got this little guy finished, just need to take some pix of it (might do a brief video too, for sound). Quills, I'm not going to add any soundholes...it seems to be...
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