A different way to make a banjo pot
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- A banjo pot that takes a lot less time than your average block rim.The music on this video can be downloaded free along with my other music at the following link.
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That looks great!
you can cut perfect angles with a miter box and a hand saw to fit in the slots... sanders are inexpensive... the one power wood shop tool you really need thatll take care of most projects is a bandsaw, thats certainly the one to focus on getting, you can get one for about $100 at home depot... i use rasps and those small single-handed hand planers for shaping necks... so i use mostly hand tools too now, cept for the bandsaw and sometimes my thickness planer
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That's a pretty clever idea.
I use several arcs glued together to make my pots. It is tedious, but I don't have a lathe. Rasping the finished pot round is a pain, I must admit.
haven't had any problems so far with expansion, but as i am still in process of building I can't be sure of the final outcome. The pot is however, very stable and shows no sign of mishaping. I have fitted an oak ring around the base to take the tensioners and this adds to the overall stability.
Thanks, i'm gonna try to make one it's much more simple than the common hexagonal way..
Hope it goes well!
Very good thumbs up, great idea, i amoff to give it a go.
@maeran1 i used to use a spokeshave as well, but its too easy to accidently make a bad gouge... those really small single handed planers are perfect though and you can adjust how much they take off... my next project might not even be a banjo though.. im liking the idea of building a mandocello instead
@megadeth22885 Good thought. I am fixing an external ring around the base of the pot. This will hold the tension hooks and replaces the metal grill. It is oak and will be glued and also either dowelled through the base of the pot or screwed for rigidity and strength. I'll use ten fixing points in addition to the glue and am using ten tensioning hooks pulling on twenty tensioning pints on the tension hoop via a cantilever arrangement. I know this works because I've done it before. Thanks!
@maeran1 hmm.. well i have a chop saw and a bandsaw so i wont have any trouble cutting the pieces to the angles i need for a block rim... the right tools really does make it a lot easier
@maeran1 well, you should have some way of fixing the pieces together thaltl yield a stronger joint than that.. sure the banjo doesnt have as much tension as a guitar or cello, but for longevity reasons you should have something a little more to hold the joints together better.. maybe drill into each section and glue a dowel rod in between them to give you more surface area on a joint... or have some kind of tongue and groove added and it would be fine
@megadeth22885 I do have a miter saw but I want to try different ways of manufacturing the pot. The method I chose allows me to use reclaimed timber. I too use rasps for the neck, but I also use a spoke shave. I have designed my own necks with an overhanging shelf for the 5th string. This allows me to capo all the way up the neck with a mini capo made for the fifth. This idea came about by accident but allows me a lot of versatility. I'll drop a picture for you some time. Thanks for the advice
@megadeth22885 be interested to see your mandocello if you get round to it. The banjo is making good progress. fitted the oak ring around the bottom. I don't have a problem with the spoke shave, in fact I think it's one of the most versatile tools. I shape the main part of the neck with the spoke shave and then finish with rasps around the heel.
@Hikikomori013 I sympathise. My first pots were made from bending wood. Accuracy was a great problem although the banjo I use at pres and which is being played on this vid is one made this way. The lathe is great and only cost me 99 GBP or about $150. I'd like to see and hear one of your banjos.
Very cool! Do you use gut or steel strings? Just curious because of the tension difference.
should make three of them 1/3 the height of the rim.. then glue them together in a way where the glue joints dont match up.. so like a brick pattern
Great piece of music! What is it's name and is there a recording of of it and, or similar music?
Oh yeah, it's called Holly Tree! Glad you like it.
@megadeth22885 I know that is how other craftsmen make pots but I decided to try something different. I'm about half way through the build and it's going well. I have also made one using two rings in different sections. My first two banjos were made by bending the wood. I regularly record with the second of these. I just like to experiment and have completely redesigned the pot and the tensioning system. My banjos weigh between 4 - 5lbs instead of 12 - 13 lbs. Cheers for the comment
Hi, the song on this video can be found on this CD at lastfm as free download along with my other music. I've put the link to the site in my description of the video and also where more of my earlier music can be heard. Cheers.
@megadeth22885 True. I am gradually building up a my tools, but it is slow progress with tool costs vs small children's needs. I use mainly hand tools at present but am hoping to invest in future.
@maeran1 well, its just an option of something i may build.. in all honest i will probably just go with making a tack head banjo with a skin head on it.. heh, i could call my banjo "the skinhead"
did you run into any problems with the way the grain is going? the triangle blocks will expand out, but the others won't.
Love the idea, but think it would be great if you tackle a mandocello. Keep me informed. I wnat to build my own guitar as I am a guitarist, but I think I need to retire first. Teaching simply steals your life away from you.
Hi mr ward
I use steel strings
The point I thought was how to make a banjo pot without the use of a lathe.
Not at all. Its the construction of the wood that is different. I never said anything about not using a lather although on my last banjo build I shaped the whole thing by hand. No lathes or routers at all!!
THIS WILL NOT LAST. IT'S WEAK/POOR CONSTRUCTION. PINE IS POOR CHOICE; MUST BE HARDWOOD.
Oh how wrong you are! Built this several years ago an its still in one piece. You just have to have the know how and imagination to not build a boring standard banjo! Built several in pine and they're all still going strong. Never say never!!
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Pine is a fine musical wood, otherwise is just yet another preconceived notion repeated like many incomplete universal "truths" in craftsmanship, zookeeping, and other spheres. Just like a rim made of one piece, a pine rim is said "will break with one good whack from a certain angle"... but then we go for the next fifty years without hammering in any tent spikes with it. This type of consideration opens up myriad other materials' weights, tones, and tooling characteristics. I'm planning reinforcing (a) thick layer(s) of very brittle (but tone awesome) materials with reinforcement layers of graphite/carbon fiber lam stripping I have left over from archery construction. The strength of the thin carbon layers would allow me to use base material that can be carved practically by hand. Some such base materials have amazing tonal qualities but are not sturdy enough on their own, like certain rigid foams that have made astounding-sounding day project kid's instrument resonating chambers. They do this in archery for weight.