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Comment by James O Lunsford on April 16, 2014 at 5:45pm

That looks and sounds great Jim fine Build and playing !!!

Comment by Jim Morris on April 16, 2014 at 1:50pm

Have at it Old Fingers! I stole the idea from somewhere. I must tell you that the tambo jangles were a bit annoying and I wanted to hear what the banjo sounded like so I stuffed some foam in them to act as mutes for this vid. In the link I sent you I'm using a wooden salad bowl which are easy to find over here at yard sales and thrift shops. That might work for you too.

Comment by Old Fingers Green on April 16, 2014 at 1:29pm

Thanks for the link, I was toying with the idea of a tambourine banjo as I've always wanted to learn but I like all the instruments I keep to look beat up as hell and use as much recycled stuff as possible so if you don't mind sir I may be trying this! Thanks again

Comment by Jim Morris on April 16, 2014 at 1:05pm

Thanks Old Fingers. Yeah I heated it with a heat gun after stapling around the edges. I think a hair dryer might work too. There's a vid on my page showing how this was done on another one if your interested.  Oh, here it is.

 

http://youtu.be/M5XBbv_A27c

Comment by Old Fingers Green on April 16, 2014 at 12:55pm

That little thing packs a hell of a punch! Great playing too. When you say shrinking the plastic do you mean you heated it to shrink it round the frame? Hugely curious about this one!

Comment by Jim Morris on April 16, 2014 at 11:25am

Yeah Rob, I don't smoke cigars so it's nice to have a raw material that I actually use before using it!

Comment by Rob Ingram on April 16, 2014 at 11:12am

Wow ! For no bigger than that thing is it's loud !! Super banjo and great pickin' (as usual) !!! My 12 oz. beer can canjos sound better after emptying two or three ... ya gotta have something to work with ...

Comment by Jim Morris on April 16, 2014 at 10:34am

Thanks much for the comments everyone! Yeah, I was surprised at the volume too, but hey it was plastic from a 40 oz beer and I always get loud after polishing off one of them! Let's see - a 40 oz beer and a broken pool cue - you know there's a story and a song in there. yeah Unc, a small cigar box is my next target for this method. Should work.

Comment by Clock The Wolf on April 16, 2014 at 10:29am

Hey that has a great sound to it!

Comment by Bad Finger (Eric) on April 16, 2014 at 8:44am

Holy bats!  Sounds great.  LOUD.

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