Several months ago I posted some pictures of this banjo as a work in progress. This is the completed instrument. It is not playable, as the neck is warped, but the owner only wanted it in displayable condition.I changed the neck angle, fabricated a tension ring, and made a new bridge. It has a new head, tensioning bolts, fifth-string peg, and strings.
CAMEO
Here I am working on a Cameo of my granddaughter Julia.The material is Basswood, three-quarter inch thick and fourteen inches in diameter. I enlarge a profile picture to use as a pattern, and carve the face in low relief. The finish is paste wax, with mahogany colored paste wax to tone the hair to match Julia's red hair.
I did it as a Christmas present for Julia's other set of grandparents, Peggy and Chandler. They liked it enough to ask me to do Jenny and John, their other grandchildren.
