Here is my new neck on a 100 yr old Sears Pot.
The pot is 10" in diameter, so we went with a scale length of 23.8".
New Neck, Old Banjo
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Mark Lurvey
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New Neck, Old Banjo
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- Fretless Cocobolo fingerboard and head plate.
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Mark Lurvey
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Re: New Neck, Old Banjo
Headstock shape idea thanks to Bluestem Strings. Thanks also for the 5th string tunnel idea.
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- I really like the clean look of the tunneled 5th string
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Mark Lurvey
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Re: New Neck, Old Banjo
Neck Joint
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Last edited by Mark Lurvey on Sat Dec 28, 2013 6:54 pm, edited 2 times in total.
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Mark Lurvey
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Re: New Neck, Old Banjo
Thanks to MIMF for once again providing answers to my many questions as I build.
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Re: New Neck, Old Banjo
Rather cool, Mark!
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Re: New Neck, Old Banjo
I'm not a banjo player, but the 5th string tunnel innovation seems like the biggest leap forward in banjo design in like a billion years. Nice work. I also enjoy cherry.
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Re: New Neck, Old Banjo
A 5th string tunnel was presented on this Forum back in 2006. Funny how it keeps getting reinvented!
http://www.mimf.com/library/Dave_Ball_b ... -2006.html
http://www.mimf.com/library/Dave_Ball_b ... -2006.html
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Re: New Neck, Old Banjo
Tunnelled 5th strings are by no means a new invention - they were popular on English-made banjos many decades ago. I think it was because guitar necks could be easily adapted to be banjo necks that way. They even kept the six-string peghead, but removed one of the pegs.