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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | Clearly takes the mystery and misery out of the whole process. Just as in his other book, Constructing A Bluegrass Mandolin, Roger's simple and concise step-by-step instructions show you the how and the why of it all, leading you on a path that blends discovery with pure joy. Over 200 photos and illustrations provide the kind of valuable reference no other book in the field can offer. Roger has used his technical knowledge on design, sound, and all of the important stages of construction that go into the building of a musical instrument, and has incorporated these ideas into one text. The end result is this valuable book of information that will help you to learn more about the makeup of a 5-string banjo, and more importantly, will give you the satisfaction and pride in being able to accomplish the building of a banjo that you can play and enjoy for years to come. | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Plastic Comb: | 64 pages | | Publisher: | Hal Leonard | | Publication Date: | July 01, 1985 | | Language: | English | | ISBN: | 0881883735 | | Package Length: | 11.8 inches | | Package Width: | 9.2 inches | | Package Height: | 0.4 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.75 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 6 reviews |
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1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Make it, then play it. Jun 27, 2007
Very detailed instructions for each part in a chapter for each part. Full size plans in a fold-out section. Mr Siminoff knows his stuff and suggests various approaches depending upon your skills or facilities.
If you're even just a little bit handy then you should be able to make a worthwhile instrument from this book.
 A Down To Earth Guide To Banjo Lutherie Apr 08, 2007
This guide is aimed at people with a fair degree of woodworking skills. It covers the high points and provides very good pictures and advice. Although plans for building a banjo are included, none of the more useful jigs are drawn up - consistent with the aim of the book, but holding it back from be excellent and most thorough. Bottom line? Worth every penny.
Good book on banjo construction Mar 29, 2005
While this is a good book and will teach you many things about wood selection and how to cut, what materials to select, how to stain and with what-basically it takes you from the lumbar yard for selection of raw materials to the back porch and pickin your newly constructed banjo there are some well known errors in the book-particularly with the proper length of the fretboard for correct intonation. overall this is a very good book and if you keep a keen eye open for the inconsistancies you will build a killer banjo (or at least a killer kit banjo)
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Incredible resource Feb 25, 2003
I am an advanced woodworker and know what I am looking at in regard to how-to wood working books. This book is so definitive and complete that it is the standard I will use for other books of its kind. Although it is a technical book there is also bits of supporting theory about the "why" of the "how-to". Although there were some things I know little about, such as inlaying work, I found myself inspired to get into areas that before I would avoid. Great book, Roger.
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A Basic Handbook for Banjo Builders Mar 02, 2000
Every prospective banjo builder should have this book. It is thorough and exhaustive. If you have the proper tools and are willing to take your time, you can build a perfectly good banjo with the information in this book. Roger shows the prospective builder how to construct almost every major part of the instrument, from the rim to the neck to the resonator. Fortunately for the tyro, it is not necessary to go quite this far in the building process. It is now very easy to obtain semi-finished parts from many sources, so you don't have to slot your own fretboard or bend your own rim, unless you really like to get down to the most basic type of building. This book has been out for fifteen years now, and some of the suppliers in his list have gone out of business. So the list should probably be updated. If you do an internet search for banjo parts, you will be able to buy almost everything you need in semi finished form to construct a great banjo, using this book as a guide along the way.
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