Just posted my latest gourd build to its new owner... I always get nervous at this time... did it get there in one piece? does he like it?...
This is an 8 1/2" U.K. grown gourd. with a walnut neck, calf skin vellum and leather tailpiece. The gourd has been reinforced with polyurethane resin which helps to strengthen it as well as improve the resonance. This banjo has a love deep tone and plenty of "plunk".
The figuring on the walnut was really nice and came up a treat with some shellac and rottenstone.
The bridge is hand made from spruce. The spruce is from the sound board of an old piano
"f" sound hole
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