It's done, just need to get some oil to oil the fretboard.
Shame about the splotches. They were already on the metal, I think they looked like weld spatter. I ground them flat but I guess the metal was different enough. I was also going to make one of those... lids. Alot of older banjo tailpieces have an extra hinged bit of metal that covers most of the tailpiece and I guess hides the termination of the strings, or at least protects them from getting bumped. I thought it'd hide the mess but I think it'd just add to it!
Having the strings terminate above the pivot point was a bad idea since this tends to pull the tailpiece down.
Oh I just noticed I forgot to fully screw in the pivot pin! I'm lucky it hasn't come loose...
Trying to adjust the neck didn't seem to do much but shorten it. But the gap on the right is consistent all the way up the neck, so again I can live with it~
Note the end of the fretboard. I tried routing that again to match the slightly shorter neck, but had problems and needed to carve most of it with a chisel so it's a bit lumpy.
I think the headstock came out quite nice. The seams in the burl don't line up properly, but the truss rod cover is canted a bit which helps hide that somewhat.
The nut probably needs doing again through. String spacing isn't great but the 5th string makes it through without any difficulty, which is nice.
Recorded a test video, just to see how it'd go. The camera microphone isn't so great so i'll probably end up doing it next to my computer and using a better microphone.
Also it's hard to find stills that don't look weird. So here's a still of me looking very apathetic.
Anyways I know i'm mostly pointing out the bad things, and i'm not trying to beat myself up (or humble myself!). I just think they're interesting.
Now I've got to sort through over 135GB of video clips and try figure out how to best make the video.
