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String retaining bar lines up ready for hole plunging!...
Hole plunging being plunged...
ITS ALIVE!!!!!
and by Christ does it sound good!!!!!
Action is low with no choking... sounds great acoustically... quite chuffed!....
to the paint room!!!!!
Also finished off the nylon wire retaining block...
excuse the playing coz it’s bloody cold on the farm and finger no worky good... but here’s a quick vid!...
https://youtu.be/5iaUopo2LxI
Darren swears blind it wasn’t him but I suspect he got carried away with the spray gun...
Seeing as I’d been robbed of the fun part, boredom quickly set in...
I decided that whilst one junior is good... two is better... so... yep... you guessed it... I started another
body all routed, just neck pocket to do...
Neck roughed out, Truss Rod channel cut, truss Rod made...
So there you are... a productive day... and... the second junior will prolly be up for sale, fretted, set up but unfinished and without hardware if anyone takes a shine to it
(formerly customkits)
starting to look like a proper banjo...
after weeks of messing around with various techniques to get an authentic tv finish... we’ve had an eureka moment...
now using poopots patented secret tv method it finally looks right!...
less than 24 hours ago it was (yet again) stripped back to bare wood... mahogany to tv yellow in double quick time!!!!
clear coats next
(formerly customkits)
(formerly miserneil)
(formerly customkits)
the SC was painted after I experimented on some scrap... got the same result but it’s a lot quicker now... and consistent