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Daniel Grundel
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Making a Banjo
In this video I build a banjo in the most round-about ways possible.
Don't ask what I was thinking with those title cards. I'm not so sure myself...
This guy's videos were a big help. They're also entertaining to watch, i'd recommend watching them if you haven't already.
ua-cam.com/users/fletch123 (as always, I hope I pronounced the name right in the video!)
If you want to hear that song at the end played properly, this guy (Andy) does an exellent cover.
ua-cam.com/video/Zjr_gRTuPcM/v-deo.html
The music used for the title cards was this track by Malmen, used with his permission. Bit of a strange website, but it reminds me of what the internet was like 10-15 years ago.
battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/Life+Cycle/22353/
I learned to play the banjo (and guitar) following this guy's, Patrick Costello's, videos on frailing. He's a peculiar fellow who keeps changing course in weird ways, so sometimes he decides to do stuff like delete all his videos and then a bit later put them all back up. But despite that he's still very good at teaching this stuff. I'm a bit out of practise myself though.
ua-cam.com/users/Dobro33H
I've got some shoddy drawings for this banjo, provided as-is. There wasn't much of a good plan since I built most of the stuff to fit as I went along. This sketchup model is just a whole load of... stuff I slapped down to help figure things out. Sketchup is great for things that are cylinders and squares, but it really falls apart when you try to make anything a bit more complicated like a banjo neck.
drive.google.com/file/d/0B1DQACn8Wh8zQlhhS25sbGJIMEE/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-Dd1JfPduhZOtBOCJAZZUNQ
There was an excellent website with alot of banjo making advise, called Bluestem, but it's been down for a while now and is probably gone for good. Which is a shame, or i'd link it here.
Edit (02/11/16): I did a bit of searching and found the bluestem website hosted on the wayback machine. It's worth a look since it goes into a good amount of detail on some of the trickier things like the banjo neck angles.
web.archive.org/web/20160328213135/www.bluestemstrings.com/pageBanjoDesign.html
web.archive.org/web/20160329132923/www.bluestemstrings.com/pageBanjoConstructionTips1.html
Also I hope this video doesn't leave out too much. There was alot of ground to cover with this video and I sort of skimmed over a bunch of stuff to try keep the runtime down.
Don't ask what I was thinking with those title cards. I'm not so sure myself...
This guy's videos were a big help. They're also entertaining to watch, i'd recommend watching them if you haven't already.
ua-cam.com/users/fletch123 (as always, I hope I pronounced the name right in the video!)
If you want to hear that song at the end played properly, this guy (Andy) does an exellent cover.
ua-cam.com/video/Zjr_gRTuPcM/v-deo.html
The music used for the title cards was this track by Malmen, used with his permission. Bit of a strange website, but it reminds me of what the internet was like 10-15 years ago.
battleofthebits.org/arena/Entry/Life+Cycle/22353/
I learned to play the banjo (and guitar) following this guy's, Patrick Costello's, videos on frailing. He's a peculiar fellow who keeps changing course in weird ways, so sometimes he decides to do stuff like delete all his videos and then a bit later put them all back up. But despite that he's still very good at teaching this stuff. I'm a bit out of practise myself though.
ua-cam.com/users/Dobro33H
I've got some shoddy drawings for this banjo, provided as-is. There wasn't much of a good plan since I built most of the stuff to fit as I went along. This sketchup model is just a whole load of... stuff I slapped down to help figure things out. Sketchup is great for things that are cylinders and squares, but it really falls apart when you try to make anything a bit more complicated like a banjo neck.
drive.google.com/file/d/0B1DQACn8Wh8zQlhhS25sbGJIMEE/view?usp=sharing&resourcekey=0-Dd1JfPduhZOtBOCJAZZUNQ
There was an excellent website with alot of banjo making advise, called Bluestem, but it's been down for a while now and is probably gone for good. Which is a shame, or i'd link it here.
Edit (02/11/16): I did a bit of searching and found the bluestem website hosted on the wayback machine. It's worth a look since it goes into a good amount of detail on some of the trickier things like the banjo neck angles.
web.archive.org/web/20160328213135/www.bluestemstrings.com/pageBanjoDesign.html
web.archive.org/web/20160329132923/www.bluestemstrings.com/pageBanjoConstructionTips1.html
Also I hope this video doesn't leave out too much. There was alot of ground to cover with this video and I sort of skimmed over a bunch of stuff to try keep the runtime down.
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Homemade Drum/ Thickness Sander
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In this video I make a drum/ thickness sander. It turned out fairly well and so far i've had no (big) problems with it. Specs are: Max Stock Width - 392mm Max Stock Height - 45mm (limited by the motor getting in the way) Drum Diameter - 125mm Drum RPM - 1400 Table Length (between rollers) - 550mm Those are about all the bogus stats I can think of to make this description sound professional. If ...
Machining a Peanut Lighter
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In this video I machine a small lighter. I'd made one like it a few years ago, but I wanted to give it another go since the original one had some problems. You can buy lighters like it, I think they advertise them as survival or emergency lighters. Although in an emergency i'm not sure if i'd want to rely on something I built. Here's a link to some plans. iforce.co.nz/i/phsgi11e.krd.png Keep in...
Building an Electric Bike.
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In this video I build an electric bike. It's a bit of a goofy design since I was trying not to just repeat something i'd seen done before, but it works fairly well. Just don't get it wet. Thanks to everyone on the MadModder forum (worth checking out if you're interested in this kind of stuff), and especially vtsteam (who's name I got repeatedly wrong in the video, even after attempting to corre...
Graphics Tablet Stand
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I've been doing alot of computer stuff lately, trying to learn 3d modelling. It's surprisingly complicated just learning the systems, let alone getting good at the artistic side. For producing textures for the 3d models, as well as other artsy assets, I figured it'd be a good idea to buy a relatively cheap graphics tablet. Didn't take long for it to get buried in desk rubble, so in this video i...
Homemade oscillating spindle sander.
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In this video I'll be building an oscillating spindle sander. Features are: -Table tilts to over 45 degrees. -Table inserts! -Toggleable oscillation with a max 45mm stroke, as well as adjustability on how far and how high it oscillates. -Interchangable spindles (or there would be if i'd made more than one). -Efficient dust collection. -Flammable. -Cost effective with equivalent sanders retailin...
Metal casting pattern making, for a zither style banjo.
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In this video I make a couple of patterns for metal casting. They're hopefully going to be used to build a banjo. The patterns themself work fine but I haven't had success casting the parts as of yet. John's channel. Good detailed videos on machining and casting. ua-cam.com/users/doubleboostvideos Ronald Walter's inside diameter sanding jig. ua-cam.com/video/omYYshYj-NY/v-deo.html
Homemade Tablesaw.
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Just a quick overview of a tablesaw I built recently, based largely off of Matthias Wandel's own homemade saw viewable here: woodgears.ca/homemade_tablesaw/ See if you can spot the bullet points I printed out to try and keep this video more structured. I'm not sure if they really helped.
Making a Medieval Norman Helmet - Part 2
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Part 1: ua-cam.com/video/Tt68Ymedc6k/v-deo.html Finishing up the helmet. I'm still sort of surprised I managed to get this far, I was expecting something to go irreparably wrong at each step of the process. I guess i'm lucky that everything around the helmet blew up, but not the helmet itself.
Making a Medieval Norman Helmet - Part 1
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In this video I raise a medieval Norman style helmet. Part 2: ua-cam.com/video/of46mruk17k/v-deo.html If you're after more information, check out these links. Eric Thing's article on making a similar helmet. www.anvilfire.com/21centbs/armor/NormanHelmet/top_index.htm Eric Dubé's videos, these are a great watch. armuredube.com/Videos.html Parker Brown's Channel. This guy's 'hot raising steel vid...
Garage Ventilation - Part 2 - The Window
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In this video I install a small window into my dilapidated garage doors, so I can mount a fan in front to blow fumes out the garage.
Garage Ventilation - Part 1 - The Box Fan
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With the forge now more or less complete and working, I need to figure out how not to gas myself with it's exhaust while in a confined space. It's based heavily off of the one made in this video. ua-cam.com/video/6nZcRGLJJDg/v-deo.html
Propane armour/ sheet metal forge - Part 4 - The Burner & More Refractory
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In this video I get the forge set up for its first firing.
Propane Armour/ Sheet Metal Forge Construction - Part 3 - The Refractory
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In this one I line the forge with refractory cement.
Propane Armour/ Sheet Metal Forge Construction - Part 2
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Here I made the platform and chamber. Mostly crude sheet metal work, but it took me a lot longer than I expected it to and I didn't have time to line it with refractory in this video.
Propane Armour/ Sheet Metal Forge Construction - Part 1
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Propane Armour/ Sheet Metal Forge Construction - Part 1
I wonder how you'd build it now, in this day and age of Send Cut Send...
not sure what that is. looks like some kinda online CNC service? i did get some steel parts laser cut a few years back to make a 3d printer but i went to a place nearby. was bit of a minor adventure since i first went to a plasma cutting place first and they reckoned the parts i wanted cut were a bit too precise for what they're capable of, so they referred me on. it was a pretty good experience and also surprisingly cheap. like less than it would've cost me to buy steel in small quantities still for plywood parts i still dont think there's much beating a bandsaw and jigsaw. laser burnt wood reeks and CNC routers cause alot of tear-out and struggle to form sharp inside corners. and both machines cost alot in space alone
Incredible stuff. Nothing was going to stop you. I especially like the wooden crosslide table!!
How do you get the sizes? How do you know what size disc to start with for a proper fitting helm? I'm trying to get into this kind of work but can't get much on sizing
Hi may I ask what motor is that driving your feed belt
It's a car windscreen wiper motor. You might be able to pick them up fairly cheap from an automotive scrapyard. The one I used to go to has unfortunately closed, so if I wanted another now i'd probably just pay a bit more on ebay.
@@dangrundel I found this on Amazon (Electric Drive Motor, Reversible High Torque Worm Geared Motor DC12v) Do you thinks it would suit to drive the feeder
@@GrahamSlater-Brown-b9d I don't see why not if you can find a way to mount it and couple it to the conveyor's roller.
@@dangrundel Many thanks for that greatly appreciated. Three more question if you don't mind. Do you have drawings for this sander? What diameter is the sand drum and what width is it?
@@GrahamSlater-Brown-b9d In the video description directly under the video (press the "...more" to expand it) there should be a link to the Sketchup file. Sketchup is a free CAD program... or... it was at least. I'm not sure what it's current status is since it's been sold and resold to various companies over the last 8 years. I never did make proper drawings for this thing outside of that 3d model, but you should be able to take measurements from it. Not sure if i'd recommend Sketchup as a program worth learning to use outside of just taking measurements from existing models, though.
AWESOME
Wow great work
Thankyou for all the info --really appreciate ---I can foresee a lot of hard work ----some of those banjos are complex ---but its not impossible-- let me get cracking --now that I have diagrams and the relevant dimensions------gracias --love this instrument --made a few --but they suck sound wise --so its back to the drawing board!
Most people simply do NOT have all your sophisticated machines etc
Maybe its a top secret project ---looks so complicated-----so I will look for simpler ideas!
Howdid you build this banjo --without detailed BLUEPRINTS? Why not show us the graphic design --or is it guesswork ?
Alot of it was going by stuff found online found through google searches. It feels like a lost age, the internet even just 7 years ago... "Back when the streets were paved with gold!" but it really was incredible how much useful and detailed Stuff you could find via a search engine prompt. It's of course now all SEO garbage and algorithm served Content. This website is still up on the Internet Archive thankfully, and it seems they've even saved the images which is relief. There's alot of useful info there regarding neck angles and such. web.archive.org/web/20160201212642/www.bluestemstrings.com/pageBanjoDesign.html Beyond that it was mostly just mock-ups in Sketchup for each tricky part. There's no real plans since Sketchup sucks for trying to model more "organically" shaped parts like a banjo's neck. Speaking of the neck, I found Fletcher Handcrafted Guitar's videos on youtube real helpful. I think he's where I saw the method for carving facets in to get the shape started. This is all 7 years ago stuff though. There might be better resources out there now but they'd probably be harder to find... I think the internets gotta return to webrings or something.
Inspiring series, you've got me subscribed. Refreshing to see you include bumps in the road as well, most youtubers never mention their hiccups.
Honest Daniel, Wery good!
where does one learn all the skills and knowhow that you have demonstrated?
Nice work....😊
beautiful !
LOL You are indeed an amazing guy my friend ! I was thinking of building a banjo my self and found your video. I have to laugh because your actual amazing skill seems to lie in making machines , clamps , holders and the like to facilitate making each piece. An unbelievable machinist , I,d say. I am the opposite... more artist than mechanical..... but I certainly did learn a fantastic amount from you ! Thanks for bothering to film your creation . ( I,m happy to see there are guys like you in this world !..... and beautiful instrument too ! )
WHAT IN THE WORLD? AMAZING
Nice video but sorry i can’t understand a single word you’re saying 😩
Daniel, you may want to check out Nechville Banjos for an alternative way to create head tension. Fantastic video. Thank you!
and the string inside the neck is one of the most elegant solutions I've ever seen on a banjo
This man also planted the trees
❤❤I love this amazing instrument, especially since I am Berber
Taking the term 'building a banjo' to the extreme. Excellent stuff. As a guitar builder I wouldn't even dream of doing things like making my own rasps so good on you. Very clever stuff
damn thats some dedication there! I made one once too but instead of doing it traditional and making it out of one piece (which is super impressive, wow!) I made two pieces and weld them together. Very nice and good job!
Bending wood into a mold, would have been easier.
So beautiful work :D
Yeah nah im going to make this 😂 imagine going fishing and out of nowhere someone pulls out a banjo
You can cut them with the cnc machine
Here's a free Tip. Fit your Hacksaw Blades the other way round, i.e. with the Teeth pointing backwards. The Hacksaw will cut faster, straighter, with less effort, and the Blade will never snag, jam, or kink. The Blades will last much longer too. Anyone that's used a Japanese Pull Saw for Wood will understand.
Nah, you put them teeth facing forwards so you can lean your whole body into the cut. When cutting metal you generally want Generous Pressure and a Somewhat Tensioned blade. If they're snagging its probably because the blade is too coarse or worn out and missing teeth - which happens fast if you're using too coarse a blade for the material (thin walled tube is particularly hard on hacksaws since it goes back and forth between thick and thin cuts). If it's kinking too easily then the blade tension is probably too low and the frame might not be capable of reaching a good tension. With decent quality blades I feel you’ll almost always bend the frame before you risk breaking the blade. Those Japanese saws are best suited for flush cutting things like dowels or joint overlaps. At least the commonly available and affordable ones I’ve seen are. Their whole design is optimized for that task with features such as minimal tooth set, a broad blade, and a wedge/ slightly hook shaped head to try gain some cutting pressure as you pull. But those features tend to make them unideal for other tasks such as cutting tenons, where having a parallel blade helps for keeping the cut level, or rip cuts where the lack of a set can get the blade stuck in cringe type wood. But I think that’s one of real the problem with saws, or hand tools in general. Is that since you’re providing all the Power, you tend to notice the sub-optimal parts of each design as it’s employed for the wrong kind of cut… and it’s easy to get lost spending too much money trying to overcome that. Then you turn into a dreaded Tool Collector.
@@dangrundel With the Teeth facing forward, the Blade is never Tensioned. The harder you push on it, the less tension will be in the Blade. Think about it (as you obviously haven't tried it), the Teeth are gripping the metal on the forwards stroke, you're pushing on the Handle, so the Blade is under Compression, not Tension. That's why the Blades buckle and kink so easily, no matter how much you tighten the Frame. It's also obvious that you've never used the Wood Pull-Saws, they perform beautifully for ALL types of cuts on all Woods.
@@Docv400 If you can't tension your blade enough to prevent it buckling then the problem may be in your frame. Setting a hacksaw up to cut on the pull stroke will make it difficult to put the required pressure down into the cut when cutting through thicker or harder materials, or with a blade that isn't brand new and completely sharp.
@@dangrundel There is nothing wrong with any of my Hacksaw Frames, from the cheapest, to the most expensive. All Frames flex to some extent, but the beauty of having the Blade backwards is that the amount of flex in the Frame doesn't affect it. You can even use a Blade without a Frame if it's cutting on the Backstroke, try that with the Blade the 'right' way round and see how far you get! Have you never heard the term; "Let the Tool do the work"? You don't have to put lots of pressure on a Blade, no matter the Hardness of the Material, it can only cut a certain amount of Material on each Stroke, loading it up more than necessary will only dull the Blade quicker. My Blades stay sharp for much longer than they did for the 20 yrs or so I used them the 'right' way round. As for the Thickness of the Material, how on Earth does that affect things? The Blade doesn't know how thick it is, does it? If it take 100 strokes to cut through 2mm of a given cross-section (for example) then it'll take 200 strokes to cut through a piece that's twice that thickness. You just keep on using your Blades the way they have been since they were invented. Don't bother trying it yourself. I'll keep using them the way I have since trying it, around three Decades ago, and found it to be better in every possible way. The manufacturers obviously know best, and there's never any way to improve Tools. Why on Earth would they want people buying Blades more often than they have to . . .
Nice build, thanks
👍👍 very nicely done. Sounds good too ☺️
Looks great. But now we need 4 or 5 songs played on it, so we could hear it singing out.. NOT KIDDING. We are waiting sir.. 😊😊😊
So I'm going to be building a banjo soon and I guess I'm just confused as to why you built it as a 4 string instrument with an extra string and not just a 5 string instrument. Obviously yours is going to be 1000 times better than mine, but the neck centering comment is the item that makes me think
Man, 6 years ago is long enough to forget the finer details of the process... I'd recommend doing some research instead of trusting what I'm half remembering... But, if I remember right, the alignment was mostly just decorative. That, at the top of the neck where it meets the nut, it’s just more “Visually Pleasant” for the centre-line of the laminations to run down the centre of the back of the neck - between where he 2nd and 3rd strings are. And so the neck is constructed and carved where those laminations meet. Laminated wood, of course, being more dimensionally stable than solid wood. But for where the neck meets the rim… the banjo is a 5 stringed instrument, even if the 5th string stops short at the 5th fret before it reaches the nut. So for where the neck meets the rim it’s ideally cut/ sanded with the “centre line” running down where the 3rd string is - right in the middle of the actual 5 strings. Otherwise tension from the strings would slowly pull the bride sideways to align between the 2nd and 3rd strings as you play it. In reality though, the banjo neck is really long and a tiny misalignment on where it meets the rim could cause the thing to be whole millimetres out of alignment… and then on top of that the thing is made from wood. So there’s a good chance it’ll change shape with age, seasons, relative humidity, and misaligned chakras. But one of the big advantages of the banjo is that since the neck is held in by threaded rods, you can just slip paper under the sides of the neck to adjust it’s angle to correct for any misalignment. Misalignment being identified by the bridge tending to gradually walk sideways during use. Also I remember this crap confusing me so let me know if I didn’t explain it well.
well done on ur success banjo.
ha ha love ur face with black forgive me. 16.49
I still think about that incident. I'm lucky it was just dust and not hot embers or something. Or even a dust explosion...
@@dangrundel oh dear but be careful. anyway good make on ur banjo.
fuckton of work
💕Lovely Lovely Good Job❣️ ❤Original Love Banjo is Good Feel from Japan❣️😀
Beautiful work of art bro, b extra careful next time ya, God bless you 👌
Brilliant mate, what a fantastic job, a banjo to be proud of👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻….where you from bud sounds like you have a east Durham accent same as mine👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
what a job! How much time do you spend building it?
I couldn't quite remember and had to do some Detective Work using old photos I took (video files are long gone to clear disk space), and it looks like about 5 months. Which is more than I would've guessed from memory, but there's large gaps between finishing each "chunk" of the process... and thinking about it, the idea at the time was to make more than just one banjo so I was trying to come up with the best ways to do each step while not having any money for real tools. A second banjo probably would've went fairly fast but I realised at some point that i'm not the right kinda guy to make and sell musical instruments. I'd struggle to make them cheap, and then anyone willing to spend more than like.. £200 on a banjo is probably looking for something like "years of refinement and experience!" and not "can you believe they were gonna just burn this wood?!"
Nice job! Thanks for sharing
Was making the rasp really worth all the time and money that you put into it? Amazon $30 bucks
Oh my god dude, you could just carve that ring with wood milling. And glue the boards exactly at 90 degrees. But you got very confused and built an infernal machine. It turned out beautifully and you are an inventor, but I'm sure it could be done easier.
most hillbilly banjo in the world
Low heating temperature - low labor productivity. try the coal forge.
Brilliant - Easily one of the best videos I've seen.
Amazing job but you could buy great banjo for 10th of what your tools cost.
7 Great craftmanship, and ingenuity. I didn't know about the offset on the neck for the truss rod. I thought the making of the hardware was really ingenious, although I would have thought the tail piece would have been made out of brass sheet. I have made a four string, split tail backpacker guitar, and a wood top banjo, with piezo pick-up. The pickup will pick up conversations, like a mic. The wood top was from an old drawer bottom from a scrap piece of furniture, that had been thrown out for heavy hauling.
Now that’s dedication and perseverance right there! Great video.
Great video! You have an impressive skill set.