Electro-banjitaster-especiale
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fiddleczar
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Eric:
I see you are in St. Louis. I'm in the SW corner of MO - just a little south of Joplin.
I ran across your postings as I was doing some searching for Banjitar build projects. I currently play a GoldTone GT-750.
I have been looking at some of the Nechville 6 stings - but the cost is just way to high for me right now - so I thought I'd try
to do my own build. Your project is a work of art.
I saw the list of parts you purchased from GT for your build. My question is - when it comes to installing the tone ring,
head, tension hoop, etc. - did you engineer your own mounting system/process? Or, were you able to get install direction
from GT?
I understand the premise behind the process - but I don't have a full understanding of mounting the head and tensioning
hardware.
Can you provide any further info on that? I'm probably going to be a little more "bland" than you on my first build. I'd like to just
convert an existing electric gtr I already have and see how that turns out. Thanks, in advance, for any info.
-Jon
I see you are in St. Louis. I'm in the SW corner of MO - just a little south of Joplin.
I ran across your postings as I was doing some searching for Banjitar build projects. I currently play a GoldTone GT-750.
I have been looking at some of the Nechville 6 stings - but the cost is just way to high for me right now - so I thought I'd try
to do my own build. Your project is a work of art.
I saw the list of parts you purchased from GT for your build. My question is - when it comes to installing the tone ring,
head, tension hoop, etc. - did you engineer your own mounting system/process? Or, were you able to get install direction
from GT?
I understand the premise behind the process - but I don't have a full understanding of mounting the head and tensioning
hardware.
Can you provide any further info on that? I'm probably going to be a little more "bland" than you on my first build. I'd like to just
convert an existing electric gtr I already have and see how that turns out. Thanks, in advance, for any info.
-Jon
bagman67
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Hey, Fiddleczar -
Welcome to the board. Your post on this thread may not easily get Eric's attention, but if you send him a private message it's likely to pop up in his non-Warmoth email to alert him. Eric is not a frequent poster here so it could take a while for you to see an update.
Bagman
Welcome to the board. Your post on this thread may not easily get Eric's attention, but if you send him a private message it's likely to pop up in his non-Warmoth email to alert him. Eric is not a frequent poster here so it could take a while for you to see an update.
Bagman
Eric Banjitar
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Hey now, I post as often as I can. I am just new.
Jon,
Welcome to the forum. I am glad and flattered to be of help.
The tone ring was purchased as parts from a gold tone banjitar (es-6). The kind people at Gold Tone gladly sold me all of the parts. It screws into the body with wood screws. I think you can see the holes for it in the picture below. I really just bought the parts and screwed them to the body. The head section of the build was rather easy. If you would like, i can take precise measurements and pass them on. Luckily for me, I own a GT es-6 that I could use to take measurements from. It is NOT a quality instrument. Satisfactory at best, but it does work as a great template. Any information you need, I will try to help with. Mine was worth all of the effort. It really sounds unique and plays like a dream.
If there is ever anything I can help with please feel free to email me at: ericbanjitar@gmail.com
Jon,
Welcome to the forum. I am glad and flattered to be of help.
The tone ring was purchased as parts from a gold tone banjitar (es-6). The kind people at Gold Tone gladly sold me all of the parts. It screws into the body with wood screws. I think you can see the holes for it in the picture below. I really just bought the parts and screwed them to the body. The head section of the build was rather easy. If you would like, i can take precise measurements and pass them on. Luckily for me, I own a GT es-6 that I could use to take measurements from. It is NOT a quality instrument. Satisfactory at best, but it does work as a great template. Any information you need, I will try to help with. Mine was worth all of the effort. It really sounds unique and plays like a dream.
If there is ever anything I can help with please feel free to email me at: ericbanjitar@gmail.com
P
ptirman
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Eric I hope you enter your banjitar again into the GOTM. I want to vote again for it!
Eric Banjitar
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Thanks for all of the kind words, PT. I will enter it again.
The other day I was playing it acoustically outside of an open-mic witha few buddies when a profesional luthier ($15,000 worth a training in a year and a half, then five years of building from scratch) came up to me and asked to check it out. After looking it over, he asked me where I was trained and by whom. I told him I have been a woods guy for most of my life (I am a junior high technology ed teacher) but the luthiery skills were taught to me for free by the members of the Warmoth forum. He had never heard of us! I immediatly sent him a link to his smart phone, the rest of the night he was glued to his screen. Another warmoth junkie is born. I AM THE PUSHERMAN.
The other day I was playing it acoustically outside of an open-mic witha few buddies when a profesional luthier ($15,000 worth a training in a year and a half, then five years of building from scratch) came up to me and asked to check it out. After looking it over, he asked me where I was trained and by whom. I told him I have been a woods guy for most of my life (I am a junior high technology ed teacher) but the luthiery skills were taught to me for free by the members of the Warmoth forum. He had never heard of us! I immediatly sent him a link to his smart phone, the rest of the night he was glued to his screen. Another warmoth junkie is born. I AM THE PUSHERMAN.
Eric Banjitar
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Done
Eric Banjitar
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At long last here is a short audience recording taken from our friday night jam session. There is a lot of background chatter but I hope you can hear the banjitar over all of the other noise.
