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mattinker:
I'm a big fan of your threads, you have a great attitude towards making things!

You cannot not make a video of you playing your own banjo, don't feel you have to sing, but I'd love to hear what it sounds like!

Thanks again for another great thread, regards, Matthew

S. Heslop:
Thanks for the kind comments.

I spent the whole day from the moment I got up to now in the garage making the tailpiece. It's such a dorky little thing but it's still taking a stupid amount of time.



Still not finished and all kinds of wonky. It's 'blued' by heating it up with a torch, which is probably fairly obvious in this photo with the spots overheated and underheated visible. I'm more hoping that it'll offer a bit of rust protection more than anything.

It's based off of some stupid tailpiece called the Fults tailpiece that comes up in every google search. I think it's a stupid design that claims to solve a problem that doesn't need solving (that it can't rock side to side, which a regular tailpiece can't either, and that it's 'isolated from the tension hoop' which it isn't since its holding onto the tension hooks. It's probably even worse in that regard, not that it's a problem to begin with), but it is also a very wide design that hides the funky tension band without looking too stupid.

Still need to trim the nut, which shouldn't take long. But I'll probably be able to get it stringed up and tested tomorrow, although i've got a fairly busy day till 6pm.

Don't think I said but I had a busy weekend too. I feel I would've had the thing done by now otherwise.

Chuck in E. TN:
Frazer, you've gotten me in a pickle! I've been wracking my brain trying to find the name of a song I wanted to suggest to you to play on the finished Banjo. I believe it was on a cassette I used to play driving to and from work when I needed to decompress (in other words, I'd had a crappy day). I can't find the cassette. I had nearly wore it out and the cassette was beginning to make a terrible squeaking noise when played. I really liked the music on that cassette, and was looking for a way to transfer the music to CD. Now, I can't find it! I can hear the tune in my head! But I can't find it online, and I can't remember the title. It was a slow tune, and I think it was from a hit movie. maybe a western... Bugger, I won't sleep much tonight with that tune in my head!

Chuck

tom osselton:
Do you know any of the words?

Chuck in E. TN:
No words, the tape was all instrumentals.

Chuck

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