homemade cookie tin banjo

here's another project of mine. i decided to put together this banjo out of an old cookie tin i had that was decorative and a plank of canary wood. The tuning pegs were rescued from a guitar that was being thrown away! i made the headstock to look halfway between a scroll and a cookie! i appoligize for the video being short. reason being the battery of the camera i recorded it with was nearly dead thus being why it was rushed and fairly sloppy but you get the point :o)

Category:

Music

Tags:

• blues
• folk
• old
• time
• banjo
• clawhammer
• homemade
• instrument
• cookie
• tin
• fretless

[timjmoran]

wow! Great Job Bruno! I had fantasized for a long time about what a Tin can would sound like as a resonator for a banjo.. never actually did it.. and here you are , with your great sounding instrument!

Way to go ! Seems like a Fretless would be tough to play, no?

[BrunoEspo]

thanx tim, it's actually easy. sounds like the original mountain banjos and very fun to play.

[yaycelesteyay]

how did you get to round the bottom of the neck... like make it all rounded in order to hold it?

[BrunoEspo]

good question..i traced the radius of the cookie tin and made a wooden template of it. then i glued sand paper to the jig and patiently sanded it until it fit. after that, i glued a peice of the same wood to the bottom of heel of the intrument that runs through the can. it acts as, what people call a dowel stick.

[karstenhain]

Is this fretless or is are they just hard to see in the video?

[BrunoEspo]

you are surely correct. it is a fretless

[meatloafgodxer]

holy shit you fucking shred

[cutechel95]

that's so cool

[Mrcaffinebean]

Awesome! So for someone making one to learn a tune or two with no experience. Fret or fretless?

[cobrafountain]

looks like nylon strings. nylon strings?

[mightyluv]

Amazing, Bruno. Amazing.

[4evergreendayfan]

how did you make it? Its awesome. is there any tutorial?

[12eps12months]

Sounds a bit 'tinny'.... GEDDIT??

[BLOODELFSRULE]

nice scroll head stock

[fo76]

Rock'N'Roll!!

[GameLevelEditor]

Its one thing to make a quick instrument but to get some action out of it is another thing! COoL!

[sisistar]

hey man, that was just amazing,.. !!! show me how do you made that ... it's beaultifull, verry good choise of box, do a video like tutorial please and show me that,

ahmm.. thanks anyway

[timdunford1]

Banjo Man... come home.... time to spread the gospel of Rockabilly to Central America.