Uke-alot
Well-known member
First off, thanks to everyone who posts their inspirational work here, and thanks also to everyone who takes the time to answer newbie questions from people like me!
Here is my tenor banjolele, which is completed except for some tinkering with the setup. It's built around a 10-inch Rhythm Band tunable hand drum and a pre-made fret board from Amazon. I built the maple neck and other wood parts. It has curly maple veneer on the front and back of the headstock, and the star inlay is cherry veneer. The neck has a carbon fiber bar from StewMac. It has Aquila Nylgut strings, except for the low G, which is a Savarez 0.0374" harp string.
I was fortunate to get the neck angle close to where it should be on the first shot. It currently has an action of about 3.0 mm at the 12th fret. I may play around with shimming the neck to a slightly greater angle to reduce that to 2.5 mm or so (once that's done, I can trim the cheeks to the new angle). But it plays fine as it is.
Here is my tenor banjolele, which is completed except for some tinkering with the setup. It's built around a 10-inch Rhythm Band tunable hand drum and a pre-made fret board from Amazon. I built the maple neck and other wood parts. It has curly maple veneer on the front and back of the headstock, and the star inlay is cherry veneer. The neck has a carbon fiber bar from StewMac. It has Aquila Nylgut strings, except for the low G, which is a Savarez 0.0374" harp string.
I was fortunate to get the neck angle close to where it should be on the first shot. It currently has an action of about 3.0 mm at the 12th fret. I may play around with shimming the neck to a slightly greater angle to reduce that to 2.5 mm or so (once that's done, I can trim the cheeks to the new angle). But it plays fine as it is.