1920s Vega neck
Headstock overlay cut and thicknessed. Dowel rod cut and fitted and the hole in the pot has been adjusted and squared up. Dowel rod glued into neck and then lined up and fitted to pot. Headstock over lay glued to headstock then carving commences... theres a banjo neck in there somewhere.
A maple neck for a cookie tin banjo had its fretboard slots cut then glued on. I also cut the headstock angle but forgot to take photos of it.
I made this funky little marking tool to mark out the depth of cut for the binding the cut the bidning by hand using a chisel. A bit of a long winded job and to be honest i made a bit of a hash of it but good to start from the begining to learn fully about how the wood works in different directions and hows best to sharpen your chisels. Ive also started binding it using strips of maple and walnut veneer... once again i forgot to take pictures of this process.
On the last day i got another commission for a gourd banjo. This is how i mark out for cutting the top off. Its going to be fully fretted (my first fretted gourd) and i will be using Pegheds tuning pegs.
I also started work on my next 12" rim walnut neck banjo. This will be fretless with brass fingerboard, full handmade brass hardware, Sakura inspired shell inlay on the headstock... Its gonna be a cracker! Unfortunately once again i forgot to take pictures so your all going to have to wait and see.
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