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| vtsteam:
Looking damn good, Simon!! :thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup: :beer: |
| S. Heslop:
Got the frets in. Was putting them in with a mallet at first but put some nice dunts into the fretboard. I've heard of a secret technique to return dents in wood by steaming it with a damp towel and an iron, so i'll give that a try. No sense doing it now though since i'll probably manage to put a few more in. I put a couple of brass dots at the 12th fret position. I was pretty pleased with how they looked. I think the 12th fret should be the only one i'll need marked, since the 5th fret is fairly obvious on a banjo, and the rest of the frets are easy to guess from their relation to the 5th and 12th. Not that I ever often play beyond the 5th. A brief window into my disgusting lifestyle. Where I routed to accommodate the hoop naturally routed right into the middle of one of the fret slots. If I was smart I would've measured to avoid this, but I was fussing with the ideal bridge position at the time I was slotting the frets. I'm still fussing about the ideal bridge position. I also chipped out a bit of the edge banding, which shouldn't be hard to replace. It's something I fully expected to happen, and I was carefully approaching it on the router table to try reduce the full on sideways cutting force. But it was the moment after it chipped out that I realised I should've just cut it out with a chisel before routing the rest. I also put a few gouges in the side while filing the fret ends down. I got into a bit of a hurry since my back was hurting from all the stooping over, but I wanted this done before tomorrow, so I wasn't as careful as I should've been. And of course the biggest gouges had to end up right on my lovely dots. |
| S. Heslop:
--- Quote from: SwarfnStuff on August 01, 2015, 01:21:09 AM ---This has been and continues to be a very interesting build. I have enjoyed following along reading of your triumphs and mistakes - then the most interesting bit of how you got around your mistakes. Curiosity got the better of me so off to the original post. It was 22nd March so you have kept a lot of us enthralled for nigh on 5 months. Congratulations on the build so far and I am sure it will be great to see the completed job. John B --- End quote --- Jesus. It's been longer than 5 months since I started this too. I'd like to think i'd be able to make one alot faster if I had to do it again. |
| SwarfnStuff:
Quote " It's been longer than 5 months since I started this too. I'd like to think I'd be able to make one a lot faster if I had to do it again." Yeah, well you have been learning a lot, 'on the fly,' as the saying goes so now you must know a lot of what not to do. Plus you did not just make a banjo but half the machinery to do it. Have a pat on the back from me. :thumbup: :bow: I'd offer you a beer ( :beer:) but you might put more dings in the thing, have a coffe instead. :coffee: John B |
| AdeV:
Dings and bumps add character... besides, when you're showing it off to people, you'll point out all the little flaws & they'll still be agog that you made your own banjo. From scratch. I certainly am, and I've made enough dings bumps & cockups on stuff I've made to be much more blasé about it these days. |
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