This is a double build I did with a mini gourd travel-sized banjo and gourd banjolele. Both from the same piece of mahogany with lacewood and maple fingerboards. Email me at bengreco2@gmail.com
Hey Man, Awesome Videos. I discovered your channel a couple days ago. I especially liked your long build videos. Now i really want to build one on my own. Are there any important points I have to look out for, especially concerning the neck (size and shape) so that it will be tunable?
hey, thanks! Hope you go for it and build one! One think I've messed up before is make sure you leave enough wood on the neck width for the fifth string and fifth string peg. The neck can be pretty thin before the fifth string, but then it has to widen out quite a bit, or your 4th string will buzz against the pip or the 5th string peg. I make my necks out of one piece of wood. Usually for the 26.25" scale banjo, I'll start with a blank that's around 40" x 3" x 3"
thanks! definitely gonna do more of that. Yeah I got the fret saw off amazon for like 12 bucks or something, I think I just searched "fine kerf saw". The brand is Zona, they have all different kerfs for cheap
I basically got in over my head when doing the radius, decided to scrap it, and flattened it out instead. Not a normal part of the process, just me fixing a mistake. It's really not typical to radius the fretboard for such a small instrument, and it was making it really hard for me to level the frets
@@user-dr7wk6xd1r I went to college at suny oswego! I'd say just go for it and make one haha, I personally think I'm more into the building than the playing
