Handmade Banjos

From the MAKE Flickr pool

Member J.P. Banjos shares some great build pics from his workshop.

Here is the banjo, fit together. The top two are self-explanatory. In the bottom two images, I am gluing the neck onto the dowel stick. To do this, I clamp a straight edge to the plane of the neck. That way, by making sure the straight edge is perfectly lined up with respect to the edge of the rim, I can assure that the neck will not be skewed once it’s attached to the dowel stick permanently.

Beautiful work in these shots – Thanks J.P. Banjos!(love saying that name) – Link