![]() The banjo has been brought back from the dead and is now sounding clear and bright due to the cleaning out of the resonator and the tuning up of the head. Plugging the screw holes in 2 of the machine head tuners and re-fitting the tuners Making a new Corian G string guide (bone isn’t hard enough for this job)Ĭleaning out the G string tuner hole and refitting the tuner, that is now held in with a paste made up of mahogany dust and Titebond to lock the tuner splines into the hole Inside the resonator, there was enough fluff and hair with which you could knit 2 woolly jumpers. New, Used, Vintage - Guitars, Mandolins, Banjos, Ukuleles - more Repairs, Music Lessons - Shipping Worldwide. Keep your banjo in top playing condition by having it set up by the professionals at the Deering Banjo Service Center. I tightened up the head to see what would happen and lo and behold, it tightened up and held ok. The G string tuner had fallen out, the G string guide was broken, a couple of the tuners on the headstock had come loose because the screw holes had been widened out with age, the top nut was broken in two pieces, the fretboard was stained and dried up, the head was very dirty etc,etc,etc. This meant the strings were lying on the frets because the bridge was sunk into the head. The head tension was very loose and I though it was so stretched that it wouldn’t be capable of being tensioned up. While he was having a think about it I took the banjo apart to have a look around. I rang the customer and told him I thought he should forget about spending the money on this instrument and should look for a used one instead. However, when I got it onto the bench, it quickly became clear that this instrument was in a very sorry state and, at that point, I reckoned it was beyond help within a justifiable cost. The banjo was, shall we say, in a well used condition. This 5 string banjo restoration job started off with the customer bringing the banjo to me to have the G string tuner and the broken G string guide replaced.
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