This is a double build I did with a mini gourd travel-sized banjo and gourd banjolele. Both from the same piece of mahogany with lacewood and maple fingerboards. Email me at bengreco2@gmail.com
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@KwameCrawford6 ай бұрын
Favorite KZbin Luthier 💪💪💪
@phoebesanders24874 ай бұрын
This is so cool! Subscribed!
@bengreco4 ай бұрын
thanks! love your channel!
@samuelgoad73206 ай бұрын
Perfect Trail instrument
@Frostinabrokentree6 ай бұрын
They turned out great ...nice
@JoeyLioto6 ай бұрын
Make a even smaller one
@bengreco6 ай бұрын
just wait
@troccolo12095 ай бұрын
Hey Man, Awesome Videos. I discovered your channel a couple days ago. I especially liked your long build videos. Now i really want to build one on my own. Are there any important points I have to look out for, especially concerning the neck (size and shape) so that it will be tunable?
@bengreco5 ай бұрын
hey, thanks! Hope you go for it and build one! One think I've messed up before is make sure you leave enough wood on the neck width for the fifth string and fifth string peg. The neck can be pretty thin before the fifth string, but then it has to widen out quite a bit, or your 4th string will buzz against the pip or the 5th string peg. I make my necks out of one piece of wood. Usually for the 26.25" scale banjo, I'll start with a blank that's around 40" x 3" x 3"
@KaChowAndTheGang6 ай бұрын
This is awesome dude
@hh48265 ай бұрын
Awesome
@TheScruffynerferger6 ай бұрын
Long piece of granite for a level sanding block works
@Frownlander6 ай бұрын
Wow!
@kylewood48526 ай бұрын
Nice work man I love the wavy inlay!
@kylewood48526 ай бұрын
By the way, did you find that fret saw online? That thing looks clutch.
@bengreco6 ай бұрын
thanks! definitely gonna do more of that. Yeah I got the fret saw off amazon for like 12 bucks or something, I think I just searched "fine kerf saw". The brand is Zona, they have all different kerfs for cheap
@joesiemoneit41455 ай бұрын
nice job! what strings are you using? they sound quite tight! keep up the good work! greets from germany
@bengreco5 ай бұрын
used aquila nylgut strings on the mini banjo and just regular nylon uke strings. Vielen dank!
@polimana6 ай бұрын
oooo that's rad, my first instrument is 'ukulele, gotta play this fella. radius fretboard on an 'ukulele is so crazy
@bengreco6 ай бұрын
yeah haha idk what I was thinking with the radius, made it too hard to level the frets so that's mainly why I ended up flattening it back out
@zachsurp6 ай бұрын
yea bwoii
@i.hate.swedish.ISRAELUBERALLES4 ай бұрын
Please play rainbow connection by that lake
@zachsmith53996 ай бұрын
Did you decide to flatten the fretboard after you sanded with the radius, or is that a normal part of the process?
@bengreco6 ай бұрын
I basically got in over my head when doing the radius, decided to scrap it, and flattened it out instead. Not a normal part of the process, just me fixing a mistake. It's really not typical to radius the fretboard for such a small instrument, and it was making it really hard for me to level the frets
@zachsmith53996 ай бұрын
@@bengreco makes sense they look and sound great to me!
@zachsurp6 ай бұрын
do u drink Red Bull?
@user-dr7wk6xd1r6 ай бұрын
Are you from NY me too
@bengreco6 ай бұрын
cool! yeah I'm from upstate ny, utica area, but I've lived in LA for the past couple years
@user-dr7wk6xd1r6 ай бұрын
I'm from the Oswego county area but now live in Arkansas. I'm wanting to make some banjos like yours even though I can't play one!
@bengreco4 ай бұрын
@@user-dr7wk6xd1r I went to college at suny oswego! I'd say just go for it and make one haha, I personally think I'm more into the building than the playing