Thanks for the encouragement, folks. I enjoy playing. My style is a hybrid mutt: varying from the syncopations and melodic thumb work of minstrel stroke, to the straight high-octane 'boom-chicka' of clawhammer and frailing, sometimes in the same song. It's all fun, though.
I did build this banjo, in 2007. The initial bandsawing of the neck, along with the drilling and tapering of the peg holes, was done by an associate who had the right tools. I have the tools now, and have scratch-built a few, but I keep coming back to Daisy. It is a 14" pot, the largest I could document for this particular style; and it is tuned to open D (d-A-D-F#-a), though I make no claim that it was perfectly on pitch when I recorded.
Thanks for the encouragement, folks. I enjoy playing. My style is a hybrid mutt: varying from the syncopations and melodic thumb work of minstrel stroke, to the straight high-octane 'boom-chicka' of clawhammer and frailing, sometimes in the same song. It's all fun, though.
Howdy WCM
AWESOME, AWESOME, AWESOME! Big Daisy sounds great!!!!
TW
Very nice. I've been playing some early stroke style on my minstrel banjos for the past several years. But I'm an old head knocker myself.
That's excellent! I could listen to this all day. Nice instrument. Nice playing. Nice!
I did build this banjo, in 2007. The initial bandsawing of the neck, along with the drilling and tapering of the peg holes, was done by an associate who had the right tools. I have the tools now, and have scratch-built a few, but I keep coming back to Daisy. It is a 14" pot, the largest I could document for this particular style; and it is tuned to open D (d-A-D-F#-a), though I make no claim that it was perfectly on pitch when I recorded.
Nice! did you make that banjar? Is that a 14" pot? Are you in dADF#A tuning?
Looks like you really enjoy playing that fun song, thanks William I enjoyed it.
Some very fine claw hammer playing there, William. Really enjoyed this.