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Let’s see some instrument pics! Anything, in use, on the wall, in a case, whatever you’d like.
Here is a sneak peak of my custom Stone banjo in the works. This one is going to be special. Curly maple neck with black walnut center. He’s put a bit of oil on it to show off the grain. Look at those beautiful stripes.
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I can’t remember if you’ve seen this one or not. 24″ Scale(A) with a 1 3/8″ nut, 11″ rim and a Jamaican Goatskin head(doesn’t it look cool?).
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Two of my 3 dulcimer hanging on the wall hooks I JUST got. They will make it easier to grab and play. On the right is my main squeeze, a cherry McSpadden I have restrung to be baritone with AEA tuning. Left is new Bill Arnold Student elliptical 25vsl I got a few weeks ago at WeedPatch Music Store in Nashville INDIANA. Hard to see in picture, but it has great grain and top left sound hole is actual knot. I will keep this one DAD. It was Very hard to walk away from some of his and others beautiful instruments in the store, but I was after something like this for now.
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Cool! I need to stay AWAY from that place this June when I go up to Warsaw/Etna Green, IN. I’ll probably be too close to Folkcraft as well, haha!
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Om gosh..so beautiful…how do you chose which one to use!…Awesome!
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About 3 songs… my neighbors love to mess with it at beach fires… the people across the bay don’t think its to cool..😆🌴🥥..but we do…
Slow teaching yourself….
Don’t worry be happy..next one to tackle..
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Yeah, I’m terrified of cutting sound holes in it!
Instead of hearts I’m thinking just round holes with a drill bit.
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You could absolutely do that! There’s Jane’s above of course, and I’ve seen others before too. Some men don’t want hearts anyway.
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I spent several hours today with my banjo. Here’s what I did.
Removed the armrest, strings, and goat skin head. With the weather warming up I need a synthetic head on there. Then I cleaned it from head to toe, oiled the board. AND I moved the neck! Made it have really nice and LOW action. Then I put a Remo Elite Fiberskyn on it, my same awesome Johnny bridge, and put my old Nechville armrest on it. I also put on some Mapes Strings (made in TN). I need a replacement set of strings as it seems my go to set does have some QC issues from time to time and I can’t always get them. So far I really like them.
Beautiful day here for pickin’.
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I think you’ll really like the Mapes Strings, I sure do. You can easily order the gauges from them to match your Ernie Ball’s too.
Cody put some Mapes on his electric guitar and likes them.
Oh and I had to ditch the goatskin yesterday too. Sitting in the shade outside while I wait for the next basketball game playing right now, haha!
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Mandy..boy you’ve been busy…..looks nice..
Just had a neighbor say…”hey you just sitting on the beach playing music”. While the rest of us work!…i say….get yourself a dulcimer.. and hook up to banjolemonade…🍋
Yup…all 13 songs..and 4 bars of cripple creek…
Which i don’t know yet..hum..
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Finally feeling good enough and weather is nice enough to so what I love. So hours on the back porch getting the banjo fixed up then playing. Then later in the evening I got out on the pickin’ porch playing dulcimer. Haha. Spending a good 2 hours playing each day (trying to). Want to work up to 2 hours consecutive. I’d actually love to spend more time playing each day but you know – family and critters – hahaha.
FYI – Pro’s normally spend a good 4-5 hours a day practicing. Super pro’s like Chris Thile (mandolin) will spend 7+ hours per day practicing.
Just curious – why is everyone working at the beach?? And that’s great all of your songs plus you are trying a new one. WOOO WHOO. Great stuff. I do have a couple of different Cripple Creeks on dulcimer too.
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The neighbor owns a marina ..she is always doing something…and…we have our spit of land…last two years high water levels made a mess… but we have ours under semi control… and when it is beautiful out…i’m going to enjoy it..🎵..
I wrote out the tab from one of your videos..so I can easily see it…and starting the process of memorizing….Cripple Creek…
Thank you for all your hard work!🍋🙂
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Here’s 1 of 2 great instruments coming my way!! That hybrid lap-jo that I talked about in my TIPS before buying a dulcimer video just got finished and got here yesterday!! So you will see a LOT coming with it. AND – I just got word that my CUSTOM STONE is finished. So here’s the first bit of eye candy for you. More next week.
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Sure you can, buy one and you’ll stop thinking about them so much 😇
Yeah, I know it’s easy to spend other people’s money, lol; but I’m sure Mandy’ll have Lap-jo lessons on here soon anyway and that’ll make it worse if you don’t have one when that happens 😋
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Mandy..folkcraft staff are so helpful….. thank you for the link… they have a point program to…. never know when you need a new tab book or some strings..or picks… they will add 1.5 fret too!
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Oh MY!!!! To anyone out there considering a Stone, – go for it! You will love it. I don’t put my name behind many people, but Steve has out of this world craftsmanship. ❤️
Review videos coming (probably next week). I will do a separate video describing why each inlay and custom piece is the way it is also.
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Wow! what a beautiful piece of craftsmanship. Looking forward to hearing you playing it Mandy.
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Some day I will have me a Stone banjo! Beautiful piece Mandy. Ever since I saw Jason’s banjo and then checked them out I was sold.
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