Australian/New Zealand Luthiers Forum

couple more pics of the walnut tenor cheers Phill

Thanks, I will post a few more pic .Sound file is more tricky see what I can do . The tenor banjo has been around for quite a while ,jazz and irish trad music mostly ,these were tuned Gdae Phill

Hi Ron
I have been using Cox resonators . Now I have a new lathe I going to make them ,the quality of the Cox is not what it should be now days ,besides I prefer the tone of solid wood resonators .

The banjos I completed and sent to Queensland this year Walnut and Maple 20 '" Irish tenors

Yes sorry ,silly me I should have looked ,thanks Nick. I have been making tone rings with a wood lathe but since moving to Tasmania I have been with out one . Just got a new engine lathe and have been working on figuring out how to use it .I prefer this system to hand tools .

This the first off the new set up .Tasmanian Myrtle have just about ironed out the bugs , would be able to do modifications to tone rings now .