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Saturday, May 30. 2009

The Bluegrass Machine - Completed

I have finished up another banjo project I would like to share, this one was dubbed "The Bluegrass Machine". This banjo features a Tony Pass Lost timber rim and Huber flat top tone ring. The neck and resonator are made from beautiful curly maple and stained with a vintage hand rubbed sunburst then finished with a Hard Oil. It has a custom pearl inlay design with a 5th fret star and a star and wings at the 12th fret. It's hard to tell from the pictures but the curly maple stained this way has a ton of depth to it and looks like it breaths as you move your eyes across it.







Here is quick sound sample, although I don't play 3 finger style I think it's a good representation of how this baby sounds.
BluegrassMachine_Sound.mp3
Posted by
Neil Turner
in Banjo Building at 17:25 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
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Monday, March 30. 2009

The Bluegrass Machin' part 1

I have started working on a Bluegrass banjo for a customer and I thought I would post some of the progress photos.

The customer sent me a Tony Pass Lost Timber rim he had purchased along with a Huber Tone Ring and wants me to build him a complete banjo around these.







The rim is made from sunken maple logs that are over 100 years old, it sure is pretty!

The neck and resonator are being made of curly maple and here are a couple of pics of the neck in the works.





This thing is going to be quite the Bluegrass Monster when its done.
Posted by
Neil Turner
in Banjo Building at 19:37 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)
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