What kind of hide did you use?
Here's a tenor scale banjo uke I've just completed. It's inspired by mid-nineteenth century minstel banjos
Built from Western Red Cedar and Indian Rosewood.
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I can't put the damn thinbg down
Just a thought, how are you going to tension the skin in winter?
Just a thought, how are you going to tension the skin in winter?
It is winter? What happens in winter?
Which will alter the action somewhat.You don't tension those heads, you change the bridge
We're upside down here and winter doesn't get much better than this in Cairns. 25 C and 50% RH. It's why we live here.
You don't tension those heads, you change the bridge
Slim4lin gets 100 million bonus points.
As the humidity rises causing the head to stretch you pop in a higher bridge. This corrects the action. The builders of the 1860's knew this