My Fretless Appalachian Banjo: Sugar Babe

basically how i made it. check out keith young's other things at appalachiandulcimers.com

Category:

Music

Tags:

• foxfire
• fretless
• clawhammer
• banjo

[FlatfootJohnny]

@bobehill I'll make you one ;-)

[bobehill]

Thanks. I've wanted one of these since 1968.

[raydirty]

just play the damn thing!

[Mrcaffinebean]

I would have gone with the shotgun!

[fastrnb]

@satan64209

A lot of libraries will have a set of Foxfire books, although you'd have to pay if you wanted to make templates out of the plans.

Lark in the morning sells a similar mountain banjo kit for ~$150.

As for learning-- if you want to learn old-timey music, your best bet books are Perlman's "Clawhammer Style Banjo" and either of Art Rosenbaum's books of "Mountain Banjo Styles." Truthfully, though, the best helper I've ever had was Youtube, just listening to a lot of old timey music.

[Aeschylus]

Awesome, well done!

[killerbanjo]

@satan64209

The only FREE way ive found is on scribd(.com)

go there and search "foxfire" all the foxfire books are there and you can view them online or download them but you have to make an account to download them.

And learning the banjo, it all depends what you want, if you like bluegrass learn "Scruggs Style" and if you like Old Time then learn "Clawhammer" or any number of old picking styles like 2 finger.

Hope that helped, Ed.

[satan64209]

i want to learn how to play the banjo where should i start, and how do i get the plans to make that fretless banjo?

[smokindog]

Sounds cool! Is that sawmill tuning?

I had all the Fox Fire books back 70's :-)

Now that I live in the piedmont region I ought to re-purchase them LOL

Very good job on the banjo!!

[rjfpace]

Good times!