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Here are a few pictures from around the workshop to offer you a glimpse into the exciting world of custom banjo-building.

Using a spokeshave to carve a walnut neck
Fitting a brass scoop plate on an ebony fingerboard
Branding a walnut scoop plate with our logo
Installing brass side fingerboard dot markers
Laying out a banjo neck on a nice piece of air-dried heirloom walnut
Turning a block rim on the lathe
Preparing layers of a walnut block rim
Gluing and clamping a neck blank with black maple center stripe
Cutting blocks to build a segmented rim
One set of walnut rim block segments ready for glue-up
Rough-trimming the outside diameter of a rim layer with the bandsaw
Carefully drilling a hole for the 5th string tuning peg
Drilling holes for fingerboard dot markers
Layout lines for carving the neck volute
Rough-shaping the inside diameter of a rim with router set-up
Cutting a truss rod channel in the neck
Glue-up of a 4-layer walnut rim stack
Rough-cut of a neck side-profile
Slotting an ebony fingerboard for frets
Gluing an ebony peghead overlay to the neck blank
Applying a beeswax finish to a walnut neck
Fitting the dowel stick to the neck
Drilling holes for mounting rim hardware
Drilling holes in peghead for tuners
Insetting custom brass inlay
Carving a decorative relief around the 5th string tuner
Installing tuners on a new walnut banjo
Gluing an ebony fingerboard to the neck blank
Ready to assemble!
Installing frets on an ebony fingerboard
Hand-shaping the volute area of a walnut neck
Mounting a coffee-stained goatskin head
Getting ready to stain some goatskins with dark coffee
Mixing up some tins of banjo beeswax
Shaping a brass tension hoop
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