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Banjo question

Besides mailing tape is there an easily obtainable substance I could use for a banjo head that does not include animal skin. I was hoping to make it myself. Any help is appreciated. Thanks

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Permalink Reply by 3qt17g550yh6r on October 11, 2017 at 8:23am

Wow Richard that almost looks like it was made for a banjo. Sure I would say love to check it out. The reason I didn't want animal skin was that sometime it can be humid here and real skins can loosen up with the moisture.

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Permalink Reply by Richard Dean on October 11, 2017 at 8:31am

Does look like it was made for us Banjo Luthier wannabees huh? lol

here ya go ---> tanbourine

currently out of stock on the 12", but he has from 4" up to 10", most people use a 10", I wanted a 12", but that will be pretty large. You can always message them to see when the 12 will be back in stock if you want one that large, there are others on eBay, but most are a lot more expensive and have the symbols in them.

Shipping in the ad is crazy, but I got mine in 13 days

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on October 11, 2017 at 9:19am

i actually added a drop of hotglue on the back skin and stretched a small spring to the tam wood to add some reso to this one . and yes .. thats an oven drip sheet in there too ;-) ;-)

reused the cymbols too

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Permalink Reply by 3qt17g550yh6r on October 11, 2017 at 9:53am

OMG I can't stop smiling. So cool!! :) Richard, Erasmo, Anonymous you have all made my day! :)

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Permalink Reply by Lane Martin on October 12, 2017 at 4:06am

That's cool, pick. Definitely a banjo, but absolutely a swamp witch.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on October 12, 2017 at 4:22am

I call it a "goat skin reso" has more of a reso sound imho . Reso was the plan/ aim all along anyway . maybe i'm in male ego denial ;-)

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Permalink Reply by 3qt17g550yh6r on October 12, 2017 at 5:42am

Reso or banjo that is flipping cool

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on October 12, 2017 at 10:01am

thank you , glad you like it .

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Permalink Reply by 3qt17g550yh6r on October 12, 2017 at 11:37am

Hey pick I'm lookin at your re-use of the cymbals. I'm not sure what that is I'm lookin at but.....if you added a thin top to that you could make an African thumb piano and really whail on it especially if it was in a pentatonic scale.

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on October 12, 2017 at 1:08pm

Yeah , it's just a" tamborine" .. without the tam , a jangle smasher if you will . i added some beer caps for mojo points .. you can click on the picture to see the full image .

i agree , it still has more potential