@jamesbisset  I was very impressed with the final result when I heard it being played yesterday. FB is nicely finished and I like the way you have worked around some of the lamination problems. It’s not an easy thing to…   Read more»

@russ 
Thanks the banjo has gone back to its owner now and my stress level has gone back down. Difficult with jobs like this not to make the repair more than the cost of the instrument. Free wood helps.

Forgot to add a pic of the old broken neck

@robin 
Well done Robin it looks good and is certainly challenging 

@robin 
Thanks I haven’t seen this before and only have his mandolin book. For a first build I would stick with Marks course and it will be a good guitar. Tap tuning is fairly advanced.

@peter-c-f  The sound waves on bowed and plucked instruments are different. I watched a science demo when I attended classes at violin school using transducer pick ups and an oscilloscope. For bowed it’s a sharp sustained attack, followed by a rapid…   Read more»

@robin 
violins are tuned F front and F# back

@robin 
A# sounds a bit off. I watched a video on classical building where the top was an F and I think steel string is lower 
 

@robin 
Tap tuning takes a lot of experience. Some makers even tune after the body is closed by scraping the outside of the soundboard and tapping to get a ring.

@peter-c-f  Braces are usually tuned by holding the plate very lightly till it rings. Some people can tell the pitch by ear but normal humans use a guitar tuner with a built in microphone Removing wood will raise the pitch…   Read more»