The most tedious part of building a gourd banjo (the way I do it), comes in creating the fit between the heel of the neck and the gourd, with its multiples asymmetries.
Here is a photo of the banjo I'm working on right now, the fit for which is around 95% after 3.5 hours of work:
The heel:
A jumbo canteen gourd that I just reinforced with a two-part epoxy resin:
Saturday, August 21, 2010
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