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I'm not much of a banjo player myself, but these solutions look so cool.
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Thank you Frank
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Very nice designs and applications. Really like the look of that 3+2 slothead.
Scott Vestal has been building a limited number of Stealth tunneled 5th strings for quite some time and he is also a player. I believe the first time I saw one of these banjos was in a video of him with the Sam Bush band,.
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Probably the best explanation is in Armstrong's "Why Stewart marked the 10th fret":
http://web.archive.org/web/201704030..._Markings.html |
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As a comment on the "stealth" 5th string, it has a long history and was a standard feature of Zither banjos made in Europe. Windsor was the brand that set the standard as far as zither banjos go, and they produced hoards of them up until production being interrupted by bombing during WW2. Banjo design has seen just about every possible "improvement" in design over the last century and a half, and several of the more recent innovations are re-hashed versions of design features that have come and gone. |
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The tunneled 5th string was a common feature of zither banjos. Many were made in England (and to a lesser extent, the US) around the turn of the century. I had one once, but it sounded like a regular banjo only a bit quieter.
Oddly, it had 3 tuners on each side. One was not used - I got to take my choice on which one. I learned that this also was not uncommon.
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Interesting history guys. Looks like Banjos were, and I guess to an extent still are, one of the free form instruments without traditionalist to criticize innovation.
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Sorry to bring that to light in this particular topic, but its good for anyone considering banjo construction as a paid hobby to realize how firmly entrenched these two factions are. |
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This is a replacement neck and the finish needs to match the pot. I am proud of how close we came to matching the color of the original neck. We rubbed on some black analine dye to emphasize the grain and then steel wooled off the excess and went back with red.
The top neck in this shot is the original neck and the bottom neck is our creation
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Twins
..right there.. just that your version has a multi piece construction.. it looks newer but identical in every other aspect. I bet noone could tell a difference if they don’t know about a change !
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Thanks. I felt really good about the match. I have done finish tints before but never raw wood tinting. That technique really emphasizes the grain more than covering with an air brushed color over a base coat.
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I like it and I'll bet your client will too!
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I love the taper on the neck. You seem to do angles with the angels. And a great father/son project.
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