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10021A new Custom for an Irish Lad...
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It's been awhile since I have updated my blog, I've been real busy this summer building banjos and doing repairs. Earlier this spring I finished up a custom long neck banjo for my buddy <a href="http://banjomania.net/">Kelly in Chicago</a> and I am just getting around to posting some pictures of it. <br />
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It's a long neck open back with a maple neck and rim that features an ebony rim cap and heel cap, ebony fingerboard and headstock overlay, Nickel Silver Inlay and a mastertone style tone ring. I hand delivered this to Kelly at the Henry Reed Fiddlers Convention and he was in love at first site.<br />
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Kelly's going to be posting some more videos at his site, so head over to <a href="http://banjomania.net/">BanjoMania</a> to see and hear this beast in action. <br />
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Mon, 05 Jul 2010 09:10:01 -0400http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/60-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/banjobanjo buildingbm09008long neckWhat's your Victor, Vector?
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It's been awhile since I have updated the blog, I've been real busy around the shop this winter doing repairs and building new banjos. I thought I would take a minute to share one of my recent repair jobs. I got in this 1880's Dobson Victor Concert banjo that a customer had bought. It needed a bit of work to make it playable again. Somewhere in the past the headstock had broken and been re-glued rather poorly, but it was stable. It needed a new nut, some touch up to the previous repair work and the first 3 frets changed. Here are a few pictures of the original.<br />
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After replacing the frets, making a new nut, and cleaning up the old repair I strung it up and realized that the neck had pulled forward so much that the strings where about 5/8" high at the 12th fret. The action was way too high to make it playable. The solution I came up with was to make an adjustable bracket for the dowel stick to be able to lower the action with only modifying the original neck/dowel slightly. The owner didn't want to spend a lot of money and I generally prefer to modify these old instruments as little as possible, so the bracket worked out great. Here is how it turned out strung up with Nygut strings and a new bridge.<br />
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Here you can see the bracket I manufactured out of brass.<br />
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This banjo turned out great and it plays great too, the original skin head with the Nygut strings gives it a nice warm tone.<br />
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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 10:14:15 -0400http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/58-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/banjodobson victorrepair & conversionThe "Road Kill" Fiver...
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Here is a recent build from my shop, it is a customized version of the "Road Kill" budget model. The owner of this one wanted a full length 5th string which required a custom Minstrel style headstock to accommodate the added tunning peg. It features the Bubinga wood tone ring and rim cap, Dobson style heel and rosewood fretboard and overlay. <br />
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I love it when a customer challenges me to build something new! Although the concept for a long 5th has been around for a very long time, it's certainly something you don't see often these days.<br />
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Mon, 18 Jan 2010 17:03:01 -0500http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/57-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/banjobanjo buildingbubingaroad killThe "Road Kill" with a twist!
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Here are some pictures of my latest custom banjo I am working on. It is a custom Road Kill model with a full length 5th string. The rim is 2 play Maple with Bubinga Wood Integral Tone Ring and cap. The rim is completed and the neck is roughed shaped at this point, I'll be wrapping this one up before the new year. The headstock features a minstrel style headstock thats enlarged to handle the extra tunning peg and wider nut for the full length 5th string. <br />
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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:36:34 -0500http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/56-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/banjobanjo buildingbubingabudgetroad killA new life for Mc Cinnis Shaw.
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I thought I would share one of my latest conversion projects. I received this old tenor banjo for a new neck, unfortunately there is not a lot of information online about the builder of it. It is labeled "Mc Cinnis Shaw Clef Club Brand" and she is a fine ol' beauty. Here are a few images of how it arrived at my shop:<br />
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It has a 12-1/6" Dia. rim with an interesting tone ring design that is similar to an archtop tone ring. Here is a picture of the rim and ring just before I replaced the head.<br />
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Here it is in its finished 5 string form. I completely made a new dowel stick for this as I believe it's best to leave the original neck intact vs. re-using the original dowel. <br />
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She plays great and should make a fine banjo for her new owner for years to come. <br />
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Fri, 18 Dec 2009 15:20:03 -0500http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/55-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/banjobanjo buildingclef club brandmc cinnis shawrepair & conversionBM09005 A New Custom
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This is the next custom to come out of my shop, BM09005 is truly a unique and outstanding banjo. It has a lot of great features. This custom banjo has a block form, yellow birch rim, with a Tubaphone tone ring. The rim has a Bloodwood cap that matches the Bloodwood heel cap on the neck. The neck has a center strip of Bloodwood surrounded by some beautiful curly maple. The fingerboard is Bloodwood with an underlay of white/red striping. The head stock is Bloodwood with the same white/red underlay and an overlay of veneer marquetry depicting a night scene in the mountains. The headstock and fingerboard feature inlays of white & gold MOP stars and moon completing the night scape theme of this custom banjo. <br />
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This was a really challenging and fun build, the only thing negative about it is that I have to ship this beauty off to its new home! I'm sure it will be well taken care of.
Sat, 14 Nov 2009 15:48:16 -0500http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/53-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/banjobanjo buildingbloodwoodbm09005buildingmarquetrystarsSounding Off
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I got some request for a sound file of the <a href="http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/49-Latest-Custom-Banjo.html">Latest Custom Banjo</a> to leave my shop. So I whipped up a quick sound file of me playing Lonesome John on it, you'll have to excuse the mistakes as my hands are cold and that's my story and I'm sticking too it. <img src="http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/templates/default/img/emoticons/smile.png" alt=":-)" style="display: inline; vertical-align: bottom;" class="emoticon" /><br />
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Lonesome John on the <a href="http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/49-Latest-Custom-Banjo.html">Buzzard Mountain BM09005<br />
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Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:07:09 -0400http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/50-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/banjobm09005sound filesLatest Custom Banjo
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This is the latest custom banjo to leave my shop, it is a 11" maple rim with Rosewood Tone ring and cap and it features a short 24" scale length. The headstock design is a custom one designed around the customers love of Kayaking, so it is shaped after his favorite paddle. The headstock inlay is a Chakana or Inca Cross done in Abalone shell and gold MOP. The Rosewood in the picture is still very orange in color, over time (the next few months) it will naturally darken to a rich tobacco brown. <br />
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Here are a few pictures:<br />
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Sun, 18 Oct 2009 16:22:47 -0400http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/49-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/banjobanjo buildingbm09004A couple of Ol'Timers
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I recently got in a couple of old banjos into my shop for a general fix up, both of these were so interesting that I thought I would post some pictures of them.<br />
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The first one was an old Supertone banjo, nothing really special as there are hundreds of these floating around. What was interesting about this one is that someone in the past had removed the mother of pearl dots and replaced them with mother of pearl shirt buttons. This banjo just needed a set-up and neck adjustment, so I didn't do much work on it.<br />
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<a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/uploads/blogimages/repairs/Supertone/Supertone_02.png' onclick="F1 = window.open('/blog/uploads/blogimages/repairs/Supertone/Supertone_02.png','Zoom','height=665,width=448,top=200,left=623.5,toolbar=no,menubar=no,location=no,resize=1,resizable=1,scrollbars=yes'); return false;"><!-- s9ymdb:181 --><img class="serendipity_image_center" width="433" height="650" style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/uploads/blogimages/repairs/Supertone/Supertone_02.png" alt="" /></a><br />
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The next banjo is a short scale banjo, it has a scale length of 24 - 11/16". It has a skin head and violin friction peg tuners. It's a very nice little banjo and plays wonderfully. It was built by Thompson & Odell and is labeled "Artist Banjo made by Thompson & Odell Co Boston" and from my research it dates to approx. 1890's. This banjo just needed a neck adjustment and a little set-up.<br />
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I love visiting with these old banjos, it's a great opportunity to learn how they were built and designed back in the old days.
Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:56:05 -0400http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/48-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/banjorepair & conversionsupertonethompson & odellA new neck for an old friend
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I recently finished up another neck project for a customer who had an old spunover banjo that belonged to his grandfather. This was a fun project and the neck turned out great on this old banjo. The rim had been refinished by it's owner, but the old neck was in pretty bad shape. Amazingly it was an almost Identical neck to the one that was on the <a href="http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/45-What-to-do-with-an-83-year-old-rim-Heres-an-answer!.html">old Gibson pot</a>. These two banjos came to me from two different parts of the country, I wish I knew who made these necks! <br />
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Here are a few images of the old necks on this one and the Gibson.<br />
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Here is the new neck on this wonderful old banjo<br />
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Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:26:23 -0400http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/47-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/banjobanjo buildinggibsonrepair & conversionWhat to do with an 83 year old rim? Here's an answer!
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Awhile ago I did a post about an 83 year old Gibson Tenor banjo that was sent to me for a rework. You can see the original post <a href="http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/42-What-to-do-with-an-83-year-old-rim.html">here</a>.<br />
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Here is how it arrived to me:<br />
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And here is the finished banjo:<br />
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This was a fun project and I'm glad I got the chance to restore this old rim to a playable condition, hopefully the owner will have many years of enjoyment out of this one!<br />
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:50:35 -0400http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/45-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/banjobanjo buildinggibsonrepair & conversionClifftop WV
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Sorry it's been awhile since I have posted an update, but it's been a pretty busy summer here at Buzzard Mountain HQ. Upon the advice of Chris Via I ventured to West Virginia a few weeks ago to the Appalachian String Band Festival, affectionately known as Clifftop. Despite the fact that it rained nearly everyday I was there I had a great time! I got to hangout with some old friends and meet a few new ones too. I would recommend to anyone interested in Old Time music to make the pilgrimage next year. <br />
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Here are few videos from Clifftop:<br />
Chris Via and Friends Jam (including yours truly)<br />
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James Reed and The Giles Mountain String Band playing at our canopy.<br />
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Lester McCombers on Fiddle and Kim Johnson on Banjo. I got to spend some time with these two and get to know them a little bit, both wonderful people and Old Time players. Kim has a new CD out of here banjo playing, it is highly recommended. You can reach her at banjowv@gmail.com to request a copy.<br />
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Jeremy Stevens and Kilby Spencer showed up at or canopy to play a few.<br />
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Here is Jeremy and Kilby during the competition playing Sail Away Ladies.<br />
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Here is Kilby and Jeremy during the fiddle competition playing Sally Goodin.<br />
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It was a great weekend!
Thu, 20 Aug 2009 16:27:30 -0400http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/44-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/banjoclifftop 2009fiddlevideoWhat to do with an 83 year old rim?
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There's been a lot going on around Buzzard HQ lately and today I started on a wonderful repair/restoration. I was sent this banjo and the owner really didn't know much about it, only that it has hung on his wall since the early 70's and had a Gibson tag on the inside. The banjo turns out to be an early 5 string conversion of a 1926 Gibson Tenor Banjo, this conversion was done sometime in the 60's I presume but may be earlier. The pot is stamped with a serial number 8257-30 and has a Tag that says "The Gibson, Gibson INC, Kalamazoo Mich.". A little research turned up that this pot was made in 1926 and was originally an open back tenor. <br />
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The current state of the banjo is pretty poor, the neck is bowed enough to make this banjo unplayable. So I am in the process of doing a restore on this thing, building a new neck, repairing the rim which was slightly mangled in the original conversion. The owner doesn't want a full reproduction of the original conversion or an original Gibson, he just wants a nice playable banjo. I'll post some more details and images as I progress, but for now here are some images of the banjo in the state it arrived in. The original banjo had coordinator rods if you look close you can see the holes for them. <br />
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This should be a very exciting build! I have some other repairs and new banjos going as well, and I will update the blog with other projects soon.
Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:10:48 -0400http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/42-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/banjobanjo buildinggibsonrepair & conversionThe "Road Kill" banjo - Sound file
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The inspiration for the Road Kill, custom banjo <a href="http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/plugin/tag/bm09003">BM09003</a> has been sent on it way to its new home. I hope the new owner gets many years of enjoyment out of it. In honor of shipping it off I took a few minuets and recorded a bit to share how wonderful this banjo sounds. With the Bubinga wood tone ring and Fiberskyn head this beauty has a wonderful, warm tone. The standard model will be nearly Identical to this one, with just a simpler head stock profile and will sell for $800. <br />
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My playing is a bit off on this, I was rushing too much to get it to the post office that day, but I think it gives you a good idea to how it sounds. Maybe I can get the new owner to send me a file or two once he gets it in his hands.<br />
Sat, 30 May 2009 17:39:37 -0400http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/38-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/banjoroad killsound filesThe Bluegrass Machine - Completed
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I have finished up another banjo project I would like to share, this one was dubbed <a href="http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/26-The-Bluegrass-Machin-part-1.html">"The Bluegrass Machine"</a>. This banjo features a <a href="http://www.tonypassbanjorims.com/" target="_blank">Tony Pass</a> Lost timber rim and <a href="http://huberbanjos.com/c_main.htm" target="_blank">Huber</a> 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.<br />
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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.<br />
Sat, 30 May 2009 17:25:54 -0400http://www.buzzardmountain.com/blog/archives/37-guid.htmlhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/banjobanjo buildingbluegrasssound files