More Banjo Work |
This is on my cheapo open-back 5-string Rogue banjo from you-know-where. The saga of me getting to this banjo is too long to tell. But I have it and I want it like I want it. |
I played it enough to learn that I like it but it needed an arm rest. The wood for the arm rest came from a walnut trophy I got somewhere in a national model airplane contest. I have gained a lot of nice wood this way. The bracket material is cut form .025" hard aluminum. In this image they are just strips as snipped from a sheet. They look like brass because of the reflections. |
Now the strips have been bent to shape and polished. |
I like it that the arm rest is as stable as it is. I do not know what finish I will put on it. Maybe gun stock oil . . . maybe arm sweat. Maybe bough. |
I had a chromatic uke tuner that had the clamp bracket break so I removed the parts I wanted and now it is permanently mounted to the banjo rim. The rim can go up and down without touching the arm rest brackets. |
I could have done this better if I wanted to spend more time on it. Yet, it is but a banjo. All this effort might have taken 12 hours. (I provide the necessary muting by shoving thick sponge between neck rod and bridge, or I clip wooden clothes pins on the bridge between between head and strings.) |
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