made a fretless cookie tin banjo

[pietro79]

hey there,

I made a fretless cookie tin banjo.

I've posted images and an audio clip on my site (the clip recorded with my newly made electret..the usual wm-61a tape op electret... working on the linkwitz mod soon)

hope you enjoy it... rather easy to make if you have patience... and well worth making!

http://geocities.com/pietrosammarco/cookietin.html


pietro

[sonicmook56]

Thats cool. I like the way you did the tuners

[inverseroom]

I agree, those tuners are beautiful. Cool project!

[Spiderhead69]

Nice Banjo....
loved the tuning pegs....

[Marc Alan Goodman]

brilliant. Did you just sand down the fingerboard, or did you coat it with something you had around?

-marc

[pietro79]

brilliant. Did you just sand down the fingerboard, or did you coat it with something you had around?

-marc

I was originally thinking of putting a coat or two of shellac, I was afraid of the strings chewing up the neck...

I haven't so far because it doesn't seem to be a problem so far.. if I start to notice it then I might, and then anytime time the shellac wears down I'd recoat.. easier to recoat then replace the whole neck..

But for now, I like to keep things as simple as possible... I feel like consumer culture has trained me to always look for more, when, if I stop to think of it, a lot of times I can do with less. It's when things are designed impatiently (cheaply) that you need more to compensate...

ok enough of a rant, huh?

p

[sonicmook56]

I feel like consumer culture has trained me to always look for more, when, if I stop to think of it, a lot of times I can do with less. It's when things are designed impatiently (cheaply) that you need more to compensate...

ok enough of a rant, huh?

p

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