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My main banjo is a Tom Nechville Vintage Helimount, with cyclotronic tone ring (ball bearings), radiused fret board and tunneled 5th string. Plays like a dream!I also have a Goldtone Banjola and A cheap Johnson JB-100 which lives in my car. The Portland OFFKEY Easy Bluegrass Jam is hosted 2nd & 4th Sundays by Randy:offkeylompoc@yahoo.com and Tony: banjo@notebene.net. Intro and basic play list - Bring copies of other songs to share if you want to play them with us. |
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Engraving and Luthier Work
This quote got me challenged:
If your pattern involves engraving, now is the time--this is beyond the scope of this discussion, as it is one of those processes that is technically easy but takes vast experience to even begin to master. Buy some gravers, draw some lines on the inlays, follow the lines with the graver(s), use jeweler's wax or the epoxy-ebony dust mixture to darken the lines. Just keep doing that until you're good at it.
www.Inlay.com - Sean J. Barry
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Check out the Bass I built from an African Box Drum and a banister rail! if you Google it now you will find that someone seems to have taken this idea and made a cardboard box version to sell that is nearly identical. Cool
Basic Measurements of the Box Bass1) Nut to bridge string length is 41 1/2".2) Box is 12" D x 15" W x 22" H (plywood with masonite front and back) 3) 40" fretboard made from a hemlock banister rail with oak braces 4) 5 foot overall height, needs to be sitting on a step stool to be playing height . 5) 2 1/4" brindge height (made from a piece of oak chair molding) 6) Nut is lexan with a brass tension bar behind it 7) The tuners are the cheapest real Bass tuning machines Stewart-Macdonald sells at $11 ea 8) The "string: is round weed wacker .065 for "D" and .095 for "G" 9) The tail piece is an old cabinet hinge |
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