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December banjos and a fiddle
December started with #318, another stock C scale mahogany banjo that is shown on the Banjos page. Banjo #319 started as a custom rim and tone ring job and ended up as a whole banjo. It is my first banjo with a 13″ pot. The customer sent a box of flooring offcuts of reclaimed old growth pine, and
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November banjos and a neck
I forgot to say in my October news that banjo #313 was built as a stock mahogany C scale, but was spoken for before it was completed and thus is not shown on the Banjos page. November was disrupted by some back trouble, but the first and last weeks were pretty normal, so I was
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October banjos, a mandolin, and a fiddle
My first completed project in October was Banjo #309, a custom walnut A scale with an Electric-type tone ring. #310 and 311 were stock banjos and are shown on the Banjos page. #312 was a left handed 12″ walnut banjo. I also made a walnut mandolin and chicken head fiddle which are shown on their
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September banjos
September was not a terribly productive month, but I got 4 stock banjos built. Banjos 305-308 are shown on the Banjos page. I also had a fun project fitting a neck I had made for another customer’s banjo pot onto a newly assembled thin-wall pot with a Dobson tone ring. The rim was very nice,
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August banjos and a mandolin
August was a moderately productive month. It was a bit damp and cool on the recreational side of things, so I stayed in the shop more and got more done than I had expected. Banjo #300 was an 11″ walnut slot head with a tunneled 5th string. Banjo #301 is a stock slot head, shown
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July banjos, a neck, house and shop painting, and forgetfulness
For some reason which is not clear to me slot head banjos have suddenly become the thing that people are asking me for. I’m happy to make slot heads, though sometimes these changes (or maybe they’re just random chance) take me by surprise. Banjo #294 was a custom walnut cello banjo. The customer wanted nylon
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June banjos, a guitar, a hammered dulcimer and camping
June in the shop started with a bang and ended with a whimper. I began by building a curly maple parlor guitar. It is for sale at Tupper Arts in Tupper Lake through July 4th, and assuming it has not sold I will then bring it back here and it will be shown on the
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May banjos, a guitar, and porches
May was not my most productive month in the shop, but I got a few things done. Early in the month I called my friendly local excavator operator to see if he would have time later in the summer to tear out the failed concrete porches at either end of the house here in Piercefield
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April banjos and an octave mandolin
In the first few days of April I put the finish on banjos 282, 283, and 284, and wood topped banjo #4, but I got sick for about a week and didn’t get them set up and listed for sale till near the middle of the month. They are shown on the Banjos page. During
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March banjos
This month was a busy one in the shop. Banjos 273-277 were all stock banjos and were completed in the first half of the and are all listed on the Banjos page. It’s nice to have a cello banjo in stock again after almost a year without one. Banjo #278 was an all black banjo,