I posted pictures of the new salad bowl banjo the other day. Here’s a demo so you can hear how it sounds.
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Salad bowl banjo
The salad bowl banjo is complete (finally). It has taken me a very long time. You might say there has been an international conspiracy to prevent me from finishing. Others might say I’m a great procrastinator. In my defense, there was a broken and dislocated… Read More
New Oil Can Banjo – ‘The Industrial’
I’ve completed a new oil can banjo. For obvious reasons I call this one The Industrial. Check out the video I made about it. By the way, the hat I’m wearing on this video is a Vollmar hat. It was given to me many years… Read More
Progress on the new oil can banjo
The person who sold me the red can on ebay was kind enough to include some machine oil still in the can. Generous yes, but the thing is you need a dry oil-free can for a canjo. I found some of this interesting product at… Read More
Hog-eyed man
I don’t think I’ve heard this tune before coming across it today on the YouTube. It’s called Hog-eyed Man and it features Tim Rowell on clawhammer and Cathy Mason on fiddle. Great tune and beautifully played too! Update on the new canjos: Today I drew… Read More
Oil Cans
I’ve found a couple more oil cans I like on ebay, so I guess I’m going to have to make a couple more banjos. It’s going to cost me more to ship these things to me than to pay for the cans themselves, but c’est… Read More
The Can
I’ve started messing about with my home-made oil can banjo, which here-to-for I will simply refer to as The Can. Although I’m convinced it will be easier when I’ve grown my nails out a bit more, I’m starting (and I mean just starting) to be… Read More
Canjo next steps
This is a little paper jig I made to mark my drill holes on the neck and on the piece of maple I’m using as a dowel stick. You can see that I’ve drawn the placement of the neck on the can and marked the… Read More
Saturday mission…
Tomorrow, I’m going to try to find a good chunk of hardwood to use as a “dowel-stick” for my canjo. There are two other things I need as well – a kitchen fork that will work for a tail-piece and a set of banjo strings.… Read More
It’s here…
The good folks at Canada Post delivered me a package today – my banjo neck is here! You can see how perfectly it’s going to fit on the can. Just right. I don’t think I’ll be able to start working on it until the weekend.… Read More
27th Street 