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Well I'm not really a butcher, but then again I sure ain't no luthier either.

There was this banjo which had belonged to someone great grand oupa,
and it's future looked like being added to the braaiwood pile.

    Hey, "no problem", I said... it should be easier than a guitar to string.

    It's a Gallotone with missing tuners.


      So I popped in to the local guitar shoppe and bought a set of strings...
      but 'hang on there are five strings and I only have four tuners, and whaddaya mean "looped ends" instead of balls ???

      All the replacement tuning sets for nylon string guitars have thick plastic capstons...
      the only metals ons I have don't fit...


        This is where we start to "butcher" some of the parts


          I even dismantled this part... Just to checkitout




            What "bridge/saddle" huh....?
            Make one out of a piece of wood and a plastic saddle for a classical guitar.



            Thanks You Tube... I gotta check the intonation as well.

              Fresh strings (X5) plus a "clean up job" and a tune up and we're ready to start a "Boere Orkes"...
              If not then at least it won't end up as firewood ?



              Don't ask me how to play this thing... eeek! ?
                That thing is cool, worth bringing to life again.
                  How many strings did you end up putting on? This is some kind of six-string banjo-guitar originally right?
                    singemonkey wrote: How many strings did you end up putting on? This is some kind of six-string banjo-guitar originally right?
                    The banjo is a new experience to me... I see five slots on the nut, plus five places to mount strings at the rear, plus the strings come in a pack of five, yet there is a six stringed maching head...
                    I managed to get five strings tuned in accordance with the YouYube guide.
                    Methinx I've won this round :-\


                      See I think someone put a nut on it for the number of strings they were playing, and possibly put a 5 string tailpiece on too. A five string banjo's fifth string starts at the 5th fret with a tuner sticking out of the neck - a pretty unusual situation for a stringed instrument.
                        6 months later
                        Good day

                        Are you perhaps interested in selling your banjo?
                          a month later
                          What's the difference between a banjo and an onion?

                          Nobody cries when you cut a banjo in half! (Ok, its in poor taste, and I do love the sound of a well played banjo) ?
                            Brastep wrote: What's the difference between a banjo and an onion?

                            Nobody cries when you cut a banjo in half!

                            :roflmao:
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