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Comment by Rand Moore on November 30, 2012 at 8:43pm

Here's an interesting thread from elsewhere on CBN for cookie/cake tin guitar (banjo) builders about how to cut holes in the tin to attache a neck. There is also a link to another thread where Jef Long (The Phrygian Kid) cut the holes in his tin guitars. Part of this latter thread talks about the rather unique way Jef mounts his magnetic pickups on his ting guitars -- in parallel with the neck as opposed to perpendicular and aligned with the strings. His method picks up the vibrations from the "tin" soundboard, and does not require you to cut yet another hole in the tin for the magnetic pickup. I think its worth a read.

-Rand.

Comment by rusty case on November 21, 2012 at 10:22am

I think it might be kool if we could somehow generate a national folk household policy to have everyone institute a 'blacklist' to hang on the wall... everything you might otherwise have purchased, but were spammed.  Do not buy from THIS vendor....   at least the advertising flyers and junkmail delivered by the postal service I can dig into my garden!

rc

Comment by Corbie on November 20, 2012 at 4:47pm

That would be a solar powered canjo using a Spam can......... ?

Comment by Graham Alibone on November 20, 2012 at 4:06pm

To salley stenger, can we have a copy of your plans to build a solar canjo please??

mrfingers.

Comment by rusty case on November 8, 2012 at 9:12pm

Mine are presently stick in a can, and can on a flat stick (with a bridge).

I suspect the volume would be very reserved if the top of a can were not to be opened up.

Larger cans work better for me.

My strings are anchored through a hole, with the string end ball outside the bottom.  Except  for the can on a flat stick, which has a Dbo screw anchor at each end.

Good luck

rc

Comment by smilingdog1 on November 8, 2012 at 5:53pm

I notice there are a few different methods to mount the can onto the neck. Outside and inside. Open can and partial sound hole. Has anybody experimented with the quality difference or am I getting too technical for the canjo? 

Comment by Corbie on October 27, 2012 at 8:36pm

All the more reason to peek inside the can next year. We have a saying in our old wooden boats..... spiders in the bilge is a good omen......... I would think spiders in the canjo would be good mojo.

Comment by Cigarbox Triplestrings on October 27, 2012 at 8:25pm

Better a spider in a fosters canjo, than a redback on the toilet seat! Just asayin.... :-)

Comment by Corbie on October 27, 2012 at 8:10pm

I noticed this morning while having coffee on my farmers porch that my Fosters Canjo had a spider in it. This canjo has been sitting near the wall between my chair and the bottle opener all summer where I sit and have a cold one after work. I play it there every time me and the dog sit there. I never met the spider but he's gone now. Next year I'll check for a new one and name him Spider Boy John.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Just saying

Comment by Jim burt on October 22, 2012 at 5:53am

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