Hi Guys,
I'm making a Banjo - I am stealing a bit of an idea from youtube - basically I am making a sort of bolt on neck to a wooden salad/fruit bowl.
I actually have the materials to do 2 banjos the other one being an old tambourine (tambourine in transit from Ebay - hence i am keen to move on this one)
I have pretty much everything figured out, mostly the usual components as my CBG's - apart from what to use as a drum skin. I figure i need something leathery/hyde type material and tack it on tightly over the salad bowl rim. I do own a Banjo and I know the heads are made from a polyester type material - but i am unsure where i could get something like this (any ideas)
I want to keep it fairly low cost as this is a first attempt - and also something that is easily available, so i can build it this weekend. I was thinking of a leather Chamoix - but after having a look at them i dunno if they look ideal, a lot of them seem to be little pieces stitches together so i reckon they won't last.
Does anyone have any ideas? What i could use that is either household - or available in the hardware stores/supermarkets etc.
I live in Scotland - so we don't have quite the same stores as our pan-atlantic cousins - please bear in mind if it's all Home Depot stuff.
Andy
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Try a weather proof mailing envolope made of the Tyvek house wrap material.
I just rehabbed a hand drum with the Tyvek envelope method. It may transform into a banjo one day.
Tracy Kennedy said:Try a weather proof mailing envolope made of the Tyvek house wrap material.
Did it work?
Ben said:I just rehabbed a hand drum with the Tyvek envelope method. It may transform into a banjo one day.
Tracy Kennedy said:Try a weather proof mailing envolope made of the Tyvek house wrap material.
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