Urgent Banjo Question

Subject: Urgent Banjo Question
From: oombanjo
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 01:36 PM

To all who replied to my last question, Thank You.
If any one has a long neck can you give me the answers to two questions. firstly. I have an 11 inch pot, what is the length from the nut to the bottom of the pot . Secondly, what is the length from the nut to the bridge.
I am intending to put in a frailers scoop into the long neck, is this permissible , and how many frets should I take out for it.
      I know! more than two questions, but it saves coming back later.
            
             Thank Oombanjo.

Subject: RE: Urgent Banjo Question
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 01:49 PM

The length of the nut is the height of the person playing the banjo.

Subject: RE: Urgent Banjo Question
From: GUEST
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 02:46 PM

Oombanjo, get some butcher wrap, a roll of paper bag paper, tape it to the kitchen table and draw your project out full size. All thins will be come clear. :-)

Don Meixner

Subject: RE: Urgent Banjo Question
From: CraigS
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 06:38 PM

The length from the nut to the bridge should be equal to twice the distance between the nut and the twelfth fret, less about a tenth of an inch to allow for the action. As to the frailer's scoop, take out about 19 frets , cut it as deep as you like, and put the result in the dumpster.

Subject: RE: Urgent Banjo Question
From: greg stephens
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 07:49 PM

the most urgent thing to do with a banjo is immediately after robbing a bank. You have to jump straight into a car and drive away playing Foggy Mountain Breakdown.

Subject: RE: Urgent Banjo Question
From: GUEST,Al
Date: 10 Jan 03 - 10:21 PM

Remove all frets and fill slots with wood putty. It will sound better. Al

Subject: RE: Urgent Banjo Question
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Jan 03 - 12:32 AM

My pot is about 7 inches above the nut(s). That's because I'm left-handed like Elizabeth Cotton and Bill Staines but I never restrung my instruments so had to play upside-down. That was fine for me, but Elizabeth had a hell of a time keeping her skirt from flyin' up over her head. We had chicken tonight making the old saying from the depression, "A chicken in every pot" quite profound. When I was performing though I kept a rubber chicken inside my banjo pot so I'd have an excuse to tell fowl jokes while tuning. Never had to wear a jacket 'cause I already had a capon.

Oombanjo, If you have an 11-inch pot you are about the same circumference as a long-neck banjo neck already. Me, on the other hand, have a circumference the same as a Douglas Fir tree. I'm five foot seven inches tall and the tree is 140 feet tall. This proves what? I'd better go on a diet.

Also, the length from the nut(s) to my brige is about 2 & 1/2 feet. The bridge cost me at least as much as the whole damn banjo and I do suspect the dentist that made my bridge made out like a bandit. But I can eat anything now----apples, corn on the cobbb, beef jerky, hard water------hell, anything.

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Urgent Banjo Question
From: Art Thieme
Date: 11 Jan 03 - 10:30 PM

freshre (If Bret Favre can spell it like that, I can too.)

Subject: RE: Urgent Banjo Question
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 12 Jan 03 - 06:59 PM

I also have a long neck and an 11 inch pot - but those are just my physical deformities. - try going on a diet and wear a BIG COLLAR!
Don't ask about the length from my nuts......
Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Urgent Banjo Question
From: Oversoul
Date: 12 Jan 03 - 09:19 PM

No shortage of underhung male humor at this site, eh? And don't fuck up a decent vintage instrument, OK? Get a good frailin' and/or trade in the long neck banjo.