Ive been putting this off for ages for fear of doing it wrong. But i finally bit the bullet and got stuck in. So far so good i reckon.

I recently completed this mountain banjo, it has an oak pot and a maple neck. Ive tried a new way of setting the tension hoop. Its resting on some dome heade...

Here's the last of the 3. It has a a lovely old 9" vintage pot made in Hungary. Same scale length as the previous three. Despite its small pt size this littl...

Ive completed the second of the three little tack head grain measure banjos that im making to celebrate getting to No 50. This one is made from a 9 1/2" be...

Ive fitted some strings on the Banza. I am very pleasantly surprised by its tone. It goes against all the rules of banjo making - string action, neck angle, ...

Ive completed the first of the three little tack hread grain measure banjos that im making to celebrate getting to No 50. serial number 50/1 is made from a 1...

Ive had this pear shaped gourd for some time so i decided to make my interpretation of the early banza as depicted in "The Old Plantation" painting from the ...

This left handed, short scale minstrel banjo is headed to the Isle of Wight. It has a stained, rippled English sycamore neck with bone frets (bone reclaimed ...

The last couple of banjos to get completed in 2018 were both gourds with lovely figured English Sycamore necks. The first was sent to Sweden. It had a simple...

Here are the four that didnt get completed. First is a left handed short scale with bone frets heading to the Isle of White. A single ply oak rim with short ...

2018 saw the start of 7 minstrel / grain measure banjos. Three of which were completed, the others will be finished early 2019. The first to get finished was...

The 1st mountain banjo of 2018 was made from a 1930s burl walnut veneered headboard. Im not sure what the base timber is although it looks like its from the ...

The next banjo to complete for 2018 was this English Sycamore and London plane (cut from a tree half a mile away). In order to avoid using ebony for fretboar...

A new addition to the website for 2019 is a regularly updated blog showing the general goings-ons in the workshop. But before I start here's what happened in...