Soda Bottle Banjo Head - 2nd most boring video unless you make banjos

Experimenting with an alernate material for banjo heads. Got this idea from Mike Gregory at Banjo Hangout. Not sure where he got it from.

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Comment by Low Budget Luthier on April 7, 2014 at 2:47pm

perty dang awesome vid bro.

Comment by Jim Morris on April 7, 2014 at 2:32pm

Thanks Boxy. I'm experimenting with metal coffee cans now to figure out how to attach plastic to them. Numerous failures so far but one actually worked! I'll post those after I get it figured out.

Comment by Boxy Music on April 7, 2014 at 10:58am

Hi Jim, What an inspirational vid, great idea. I have a couple of wooden bowls from a charity shop just waiting to be banjoed up!

Comment by Jim Morris on April 7, 2014 at 2:54am

Yeah BARKER it hurts when my brain sprockets turn. If you use the Sprite/Mtn Dew bottles you could be going green in a couple of ways for Earth Day. And plant a couple of trees. Even if we don't cut our own, we're using wood for most of these projects. I think that makes sense to my old hippy friends and my Tea Party friends alike and it's hard to find points to agree on sometimes!

Comment by BARKER on April 6, 2014 at 3:43pm

You made my brain sprockets start turning. It gave me a bunch of ideas for Earth Day. Thanks!

Comment by Jim Morris on April 6, 2014 at 1:51pm

Thanks Nancy. Yeah smilingdog, I like to frequent yard sales and thrift stores. Sometimes for a couple of bucks I'll get a set with 1 large bowl and 4 small bowls. That's a whole family of instruments! I'm also going to experiment with rectangular (cigar box) and octagonal (self made) shapes to see if those will work.

Comment by smilingdog1 on April 6, 2014 at 12:22pm

Ordered my wood bowl, yipee!

Comment by Nancy kat on April 6, 2014 at 11:27am

Soo intresting Jim!!!  Meeowwwww^^

Comment by Jim Morris on April 6, 2014 at 3:28am

Thanks smilingdog. Thanks Unc. You got to always treat them like they're loaded or else you could lose an eyebrow!

Comment by smilingdog1 on April 6, 2014 at 3:19am

Really good info and you gave a comprehensive lesson.

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