Taylor's Banjo Completed!
Added 2018-12-10 14:48:16 +0000 UTCThis banjo's neck came from a black walnut tree on Taylor's family land up in Virginia. Since the block he sent me was good and long I decided to make this neck slightly longer than standard (as is often seen with early "minstrel" banjos). The hoop is a maple snare drum shell, submerged cherry bridge and tail piece, deer bone nut and rosewood fiddle pegs.
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Comments
I was wondering how you got so many. I just have one that I'm afraid to use. I found a guy on Etsy, ChichesterInc, who sells African goat hides for a very reasonable price. I also bought several of his precut skins. They're top notch.
Joe
2018-12-14 15:21:45 +0000 UTCWork of art.
Keith Moses
2018-12-13 22:21:46 +0000 UTCThese hides from Jeff Menzies are pretty cool. Some have really wild spots, others look like they were scraped out with a dang conch shell (which I think is cool also). Jeff doesn't sell these hides cheap since he puts a lot of work into them, so I actually traded him a banjo for a big fat role of hides. Trading a banjo for a heap of goat hides has now been scratched off my bucket list.
Clifton Hicks
2018-12-12 01:36:31 +0000 UTC
