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Permalink Reply by ChickenboneJohn on June 19, 2011 at 9:35am

Plastic skin, cat skin, racoon skin, a few layers of parcel tape, a tin can lid will all go a long way to giving you that sound.

 

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Permalink Reply by Don Thompson on June 19, 2011 at 10:50am

http://www.romerobanjos.com/06078/0678.html   I think cigar boxes make excellent sounding banjos.

Don

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Permalink Reply by Outhouse Instruments on June 19, 2011 at 2:44pm

Cigar Box Banjo. Nice sized thin box. put real banjo strings on it. Works and sounds great.

 

 

AFKAM

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Permalink Reply by Mungo Park on June 19, 2011 at 4:23pm

Wrap your rim in clear packing tape, not my idea, i think it was the square eel.

                                       Cheers Ron

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Permalink Reply by Uncle John on June 20, 2011 at 1:25am

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Permalink Reply by Uncle John on June 20, 2011 at 1:28am

This green banjo conversion makes a fine sit around, plunk and practice instrument.  It sounds good unplugged, but not too loud.  It was a 4 string that mostly hung on the wall since I found my fave to be 3 strings.  My grand daughter wants to try banjo and I think this will work well to get her started.  I added the green side piece, drilled a hole toward the top for the string, added a fret, put the tuner at the bottom and a small saddle.  Worked out pretty good.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Werner on June 20, 2011 at 9:09am

Mine: 

http://www.cigarboxnation.com/photo/marks-banjo-2?context=user

has a hardwood-plywood "head" and sounds quite banjo-y....  If you search for "homemade banjo" on Google you'll find lots of ideas.     Someone even contrived to use plastic half-gallon soda-bottle material.

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Permalink Reply by Jason W. on June 22, 2011 at 2:57pm

I made a banjo-uke for my dad and just mounted a small 6" tamborine in the box with some brackets. Seemed to work well.

 

I just wish I knew then about building what I know now. 

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Permalink Reply by Uncle John on June 22, 2011 at 3:17pm

I did the same as Jason with a 4 string mandolin banjo.  Small but mighty.

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Permalink Reply by Keni Lee Burgess on June 23, 2011 at 6:39am

Have you considered using a tambourine as the pot? I hope this helps. Enjoy, Keni Lee

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Permalink Reply by Thomas Smith on June 23, 2011 at 8:02am

I got my tambourine off of shopgoodwill.com and it was dilivered last week.  I'll be looking working up a banjo ukulele in the next couple of weeks myself.

 

 

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Permalink Reply by Tommy on June 24, 2011 at 7:12am

Tanbourine sound like a perfect start, thanx  ;D

 

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