This is a nice little coffee can that was just screaming to be a two-string. The neck is lumber salvaged from a bathroom vanity I took apart last fall. You know, I never seem to be able to throw out a piece of wood. Anything can become something, and I just squirrel them away. Now that I am making instruments, even very small scraps become bridges and nuts.
This one is for someone we know that just moved. A little music seemed like a good way to make a house a home, and she spent some time with the Union Leader canjo one evening, so I have been wanting to make her one for herself. That is why there is an H carved into the neck.
I tuned it BE, which seems easier to get my head around, somehow. It is fun to play, I strung it up with a couple of extra banjo strings I had lying around so they slide really easily. And I am getting better at figuring out how to set the action so that it is nicer to play.
I was going to type, "Nice scarf joint!",but then realized the headstock isn't cut and glued; that's a solid piece of hand-wrought wood. And that's just downright awesome.
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