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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | ....I was just going to tweek the truss rod a bit and wipe it down with a damp cloth and a little wax but.....a banjo has all of them nooks and crannies and such and before I knew it.....My obsessive-compulsive behavior took over and I took the whole bloomin' thing apart!! :eek:
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Location: Berkeley, CA | I did the same thing when I was about 18, only my victim was a four barrel carb off my 1960 chevy. I kept seeing "dirt". My neighborhood mechanic/gas jocky (remember those, anybody) cleaned it for me and put it back together fot the cost of the dip and kit. It ran better than ever.
Want his number, TRboy? :D
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Location: Marlton, NJ | I did it with a piano when I was younger - took it completely apart and started stripping it. I definitely found the limits of my attention span back then. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Ahh Yes....The ole carb dip kits....remember them well....but I think I'll need aleast as 35 gal. drum to soak these parts in!
Mike,I'm not plannin' to do any stripping on this one :rolleyes: ....just brasso'in the tarnish off the nickle plating and waxin'....I once took down and started to strip (everything even the finish on the neck and rez.) a nice old Aria 5 string a few years back and never finished it.....finally traded it (as a basket case) to my bud at the local music store! |
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Location: closely held secret | Originally posted by TRboy:
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | :D |
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Location: Upper Left USA | Mikey,
Theres good reasons why I don'ts own one of them thar chrome geetars like Beal has!
For Homeowners - "Let's just try a different color of paint"... has started many a remodel! |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Y'know, you got enough parts there to make a fine tambourine! |
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Location: NJ | that picture taken from the UnaBomber's shed?? . . . |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | I see the makings for a chastity belt with some parts left over!  |
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Location: South of most, North of few | Originally posted by fillhixx:
Y'know, you got enough parts there to make a fine tambourine! Phil, I just spit up a mouth full of coffee! :D |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | hmmmm...finish the mando or reassemble tha banjo?.....mando?......banjo?.....maybe finish tha bathroom remodel? NAAAAAHHHHHH! :p ;) :D |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Funny, isn't it, how harmless all those pieces look? ;) :D
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Location: big island | nicely laid out for a photo shoot there TR! or do you always work so neatly? |
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Location: Earth·SolarSystem·LocalInterstellarCloud·Local Bub | Now... If we could only do the same with Nuclear Weapons |
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Location: Jet City | Is that a cheesecake form? :confused: |
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by Jewel's Mom:
Funny, isn't it, how harmless all those pieces look? ;) :D
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Location: Chehalis, Washington | Originally posted by Damon67:
Is that a cheesecake form? :confused: Looks like it to me...though you'd need a pretty thick crust with all them little holes... |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | Gee, TR.....I don't know how to tell you this, but, well, I'm afraid maybe you got snuckered just a mite on that banjo; they done went and gave you one with the wrong neck. I guess this is as good a time as any to correct the situation, but you should really make sure that they give you a discount, it being wrong and all.......... ;)
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Location: GA USA | Originally posted by MWoody:
Theres good reasons why I don'ts own one of them thar chrome geetars like Beal has! Woody, you could just do like me on a resonator. Leave it like it is and never change strings. Then you'd have no problem.
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Location: Brisbane Australia | Wasn't that what they were looking for in Iraq?
A weapon of mass destruction :D |
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Location: East Tennessee | Q: What's the difference between a dead skunk in the road and a dead banjo player in the road?
A: Skid marks in front of the skunk. |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Well...since you had to tell that skunk joke.....I'm a gonna post a few more pics!!!! (Mike, just remember you started it...again! :D )
Pieces & Parts all hand polished and ready for a little assembly.....
My helper....Max....
Gotta put my "shoes" on.....
Completed Pot lookin' for a neck.....
I got it all put back together tonight and strung up but I've still got a little tweakin' to do.... |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Max doesn't looked please with you taking over his napping spot! :D
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Max doesn't looked please with you taking over his napping spot! :D ...No, Max doesn't like the flash of the camera! ;)
Originally posted by 2ifbyC:
Nice job on the 'jo! |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Max is pussed. |
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Location: Simpsonville, SC | I saw a part that was missing in the phato TR and there seemed to be a reflection of something in Max's mouth...fess up Max |
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Location: Berkeley, CA | Actually Max looks totally content. I can hear him purring way over here.
If he were pissed, his ears would be folded and his eyes would be dilated. Does he play the banjo?
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Location: East Tennessee | Originally posted by knuckles:
Actually Max looks totally content. I can hear him purring way over here. Just wait till TR starts playing it again. |
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Location: South of most, North of few | just a PUassy cat. |
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Location: East Tennessee | Q: What's the least-common sentence in the English language?
A: "Is that the banjo player's Porsche?"
Sorry TR I can't help myself. :confused: |
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Location: the BIG Metropolis of TR | Originally posted by knuckles:
....If he were pissed, his ears would be folded and his eyes would be dilated. Does he play the banjo?
knuckles. You mean like this.......
I was pinching him on his arse while I was taking his pic! :D
....He doesn't play the banjo he prefurrrrrs to sleep all day.....He's a big PUassy! |
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Location: Berkeley, CA | Now that's a pissed-off cat. :D |
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Location: Steeler Nation, Hudson Valley Contingent | Originally posted by Beggin:
LMAO.....at both pics. Copy that...err...cat. |
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Location: Budd Lake, NJ | You know, in looking at the "after" pictures, it would make a pretty tambourine; just hook up a few of the little disks to it, and you're all set. (It'd take some major arm muscles to play it for any length of time, though.......) ;)
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Originally posted by Jewel's Mom:
it would make a pretty tambourine (spew coffee...)  |
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Well....It started out.....