@markbailey 
Hi to you both and a belated Happy New Year. I’m pleased to read that things a picking up for you. Still hoping to get a workshop day with you sometime.

Another happy customer, called in this afternoon to collect his new build. Playing through a small battery amp. Violin bow repair gone also so time to relax for the rest of the day.
 

Plane across the grain to take the thickness down to close to final, leaving about 0.5 mm depending on tear out.Sand or scrape the last part smooth. 

@nsj I used Eze Oil from David Dyke Luthier Supplies. Works very well.

@russ thanks for sharing this film. I had never seen it before and enjoyed it, particularly the definition of a luthier.

T style neck after spraying, along with an S style. No polishing at all at this stage and after this I only hand rubbed it with polishing oil and Tripoli powder.

@jamesbisset  It does have more of electric guitar sound than piezo. Did the original models use flat wound strings or round wound ? A different magnetic response might produce a softer sound to the pickups. Less amplitude. I have a set…   Read more»

@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