{"id":5545,"date":"2024-10-19T12:17:51","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T16:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=5545"},"modified":"2024-10-25T19:26:10","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T23:26:10","slug":"banjo-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/?page_id=5545","title":{"rendered":"Banjo project"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Banjo project<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I had a customer call and asked if I worked on banjos. The answer is actually &#8220;no&#8221; but I generally say that I can take a look at an instrument in the very least. It&#8217;s always hard to gauge a job or project without out looking at it in person and more often than not it is a lot more involved when you get into it. Sometimes more than you had actually quoted the customer on the spot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At first glance, this 60&#8217;s Harmony Reso-Tone 5 string banjo just needs some work to get going and a good cleaning. The 5th peg was missing, it needed new strings and a new bridge for sure. The drumhead skin, I would say is optional but hard to gauge with the banjo needing some work to get going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This banjo rim and resonator is made from bakelite &#8211; a form of plastic but the pattern on it almost looks like Wenge wood. It was only after some research that I found out it was bakelite and when you knock on it, you can hear that it isn&#8217;t very dense at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tuning machines were in decent shape but a few of the rods were twisted &#8211; they still function and turn smoothly after a spray of StringTone but tuning the strings were a bit finicky. A new set of tuning machines would have been best but trying to keep the banjo original was a priority.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/banjo-1-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5546\" style=\"width:659px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/banjo-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/banjo-1-scaled-600x450.jpg 600w, https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/banjo-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/banjo-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/banjo-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/banjo-1-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The body was dissambled and cleaned. Upon some research, the neck has a tendency to turn from the way it is constructed. It was suggested to install a heel or two at the heel and body joint to prevent the neck from twisting in the future. It did in fact twist so I had installed a couple of screws to keep it in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tension rods, hoop and tailpiece were cleaned and polished as best as I could get them.  I did try to polish up the tuning machines as well: some areas were easier than others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A Grover compensated bridge was ordered in and installed. It is a nice upgrade to what was on the banjo originally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/banjo-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5564\" style=\"width:592px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/banjo-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/banjo-scaled-600x800.jpg 600w, https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/banjo-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/banjo-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/banjo-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/banjo-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banjo project I had a customer call and asked if I worked on banjos. The answer is actually &#8220;no&#8221; but I generally say that I can take a look at an instrument in the very least. It&#8217;s always hard to gauge a job or project without out looking at it in person and more often [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5545","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monkeyguitars.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}