Mistake of the week...

[NazNomad]

After laminating a lovely oak-beech-oak blank and spending ages carefully cutting it on the bandsaw this morning, I realise the template was reversed.

I'm now the proud owner of a very nice left-handed banjo neck blank....

 

[CHJ]

That should fetch a premium, can't be many Banjos made specifically to cater for a sinister player.

 

[John Brown]

I take it it's a five string?

 

[Phil Pascoe]

My B.I.L. years ago made the check in desks in Auckland international airport - in his garage he's still got the top of one cnc cut upside down.

 

[NazNomad]

I take it it's a five string?

Unfortunately.


I'm so disappointed with myself that I can't muster the enthusiasm to go out and glue up another blank...

 

[Tasky]

I'm now the proud owner of a very nice left-handed banjo neck blank....

I don't get it... Can't you just turn a banjo upside down, reverse the string order and play it lefty?

That should fetch a premium, can't be many Banjos made specifically to cater for a sinister player.

Probably more than you'd think...
http://leftyfretz.com/buy-left-handed-banjo/

Left-handed piano, however... that's far scarcer!!

 

[NazNomad]

I don't get it... Can't you just turn a banjo upside down, reverse the string order and play it lefty?

Not with a 5 string, it has a step in the neck.


I ''may'' have gotten around it.

I ripped off the step to make it a 4-stringer, then glued a long thin wedge on the correct side to create the step where it should be.

I also cut a new neck from a solid oak blank, so if the fist bodge doesn't work I'll not be without a neck. It's for personal use anyway, so as long as it works...

What a c0ckw0mble. :-D

Too flippin' cold and wet outside now, the rest of the day is devoted to coffee and Skyrim.

 

[NazNomad]

Q: What does a correctly tuned banjo sound like?

A: Nobody knows.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

Perfect pitch? - a banjo hitting a piano accordion in a skip from thirty yards.

 

[NazNomad]

I don't get it... Can't you just turn a banjo upside down, reverse the string order and play it lefty?

Now I can't get the name 'Billybob Hendrix' out of my head.

 

[Phil Pascoe]

The late great Gary Moore played a right handed guitar strung conventionally and he was left handed.

 

[whiskywill]

Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu is a left handed player but, because he learned to play on an upside down righthanded guitar, he still does. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyppTLuJm14

 

[Phil Pascoe]

As did Elisabeth Cotten.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=eliza ... e&ie=UTF-8

 

[Phil Pascoe]

"Handedness" is curious - I, my mother, father, uncle, daughter and sister are all right handed and deal cards left handed, the only one of family who deals right handed is the boy - and he's left handed. :?

 

[NazNomad]

I write left-handed, I'm ambidextrous with a hammer and saw, throwing and most everything else is right-handed.

Anyhoooo, the f-up that started this thread has actually turned out pretty nice. You can hardly see the join and the home-made drawknife worked like a dream.

 

[MrTeroo]

banjo player: "When I die, I want to leave the world a better place."
guitar player: "Don't worry, you will."

 

[NazNomad]