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Permalink Reply by Slowpaw Steve T on February 26, 2015 at 9:58pm

nice one Shawn,  i've a mind to do something like this, must dig out myself a slab sometime!  :-)

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Permalink Reply by Randy S. Bretz on February 26, 2015 at 2:00pm

Delta Groove Guitars 4 string neck [ 22" SL ]...Wade gold foil pickup...aged patina copper sheeting - Doc Copper...weathered Red Oak sawmill plank body 2" x 11" x 15"...carved copper - mesquite burl bridge w/ black walnut burl bridge spacer...copper nut and tailpiece...copper plated tuners.

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Permalink Reply by Rob (Uker) Porras on February 27, 2015 at 2:00am

Yeah, it has a great weathered look.

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Permalink Reply by Jo Jacobsen on March 4, 2015 at 2:47pm

Was there anything done to the copper to make it age in that way? I love all the colors in it.

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Permalink Reply by Dane Donato on February 27, 2015 at 12:58am

I see some really fine work here. I will play, too. This is a five-string gourd banjo, my other passion aside from CBGs and other musical instruments. Ebony fingerboard, hard gourd resonator, Nylgut strings. Neck is based on a Bouchet style banjo, but with a regular peg head. Bridge is maple, tail piece is ebony tied on with hemp cord, nut is camel bone, skin is goat rawhide. It produces a nice soft true banjo sound. I drilled one large sound hole in one side of the gourd. Pegs are ebony violin pegs. No frets, as is proper for this style of 18th-19th century instrument. The neck is not just decorative, but tells you where the fifth, eight and octave are. With very little information about how Africans would have played the banjo during the plantation era, we basically are left with the minstrel style (stroke style), which is similar to claw hammer style, and is played using the thumb and forefinger only, a very percussive way ideal for vocal accompanying. 

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on February 27, 2015 at 1:29am

nice 

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Permalink Reply by Dane Donato on February 27, 2015 at 5:19am

Thanks to you both. Love the early banjos. They are truly where the blues began. 

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Permalink Reply by Jo Jacobsen on March 4, 2015 at 2:49pm

It's beautiful, and you're also having a part in honoring history.

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Permalink Reply by Greg Thompson on March 8, 2015 at 4:26am

Dane, that is wonderful! I like your historical approach. A banjo like this is on my to do list... Very inspirational!!

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Permalink Reply by Uncle John on February 27, 2015 at 2:28am

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Permalink Reply by the anonymous pick on February 27, 2015 at 2:41am

wholesome!!!

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Permalink Reply by Uncle John on February 27, 2015 at 2:58am

Thanks guys.   If I could only keep one, I would be quite sad.  But this would be the one.  Neck made from a pallet 2x4.   DGB tuning.  

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