I pulled the paint can lid out of my cigar box banjo (can be seen in my photos) and added a head made from a plastic lid off of a graham cracker pie crust, a hoop of laminated underlayment plywood and thumb tacks, then tightened with a heat gun. It actually sounds much better than with the can lid head, less buzzing in the high strings. Forgive my novice level playing, I've only been at it about five months.

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Comment by Richard Sundberg on November 30, 2018 at 6:47am

Great idea switching lids, sounds super! Nice looking guitar and playing!

Comment by Derek Rose on November 29, 2018 at 2:08pm

Sounds fantastic. Nice...

Comment by Dave Lynas on November 27, 2018 at 11:45pm

I listened again. I love your pickin. Your practice paid off. More please.

Comment by Dave Lynas on November 26, 2018 at 3:24pm

Great job on the claw hammer. Very nice. Nice banjo too!

Comment by Jim Morris on November 26, 2018 at 1:52pm

Well done on both the song and the re build! Good clawhammering too.

Comment by Trevor A. on November 26, 2018 at 12:29pm

Thanks everyone! There's an ego boost for ya! Much appreciated.

I played a uke (poorly) for about a year before switching to banjo in mid June. That's all the music experience I have. I do annoy my family for a minimum of 15-30 minutes a day, though. So lots of practice time in with either this banjo or my crappy early 1970s Harmony banjo. I hope to have a slightly higher quality tackhead banjo knocked out in about a month or two, depending on funds and time. 

Thanks, again!

Comment by Uncle John on November 26, 2018 at 10:56am

Novice playing level??!?   I would love to be able to do that..  Good job and good sounding banjer.

Comment by AGP # on November 26, 2018 at 8:53am

Some fine playing on a great sounding & looking self built Banjer :-)

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