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Dan Pennington
PostPosted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 5:20 pm 
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Nothing guitarish. I spent the weekend trying to peddle banjo rims and banjos at the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old Time Music Association Winter Weekend in Minneapolis. Bought more than I sold.
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Spent the weekend developing a website, still needs tons of work. Check it out below.


Nicely done.

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Ken Franklin
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ChuckB wrote:
Spent the weekend developing a website, still needs tons of work. Check it out below.


Nicely done.

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+1 Sound clips and everything. That's a great start.

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ZekeM
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penndan wrote:
Nothing guitarish. I spent the weekend trying to peddle banjo rims and banjos at the Minnesota Bluegrass & Old Time Music Association Winter Weekend in Minneapolis. Bought more than I sold.
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sweet! Banjos are so cool! One day when I figure out how I'm gonna build one!
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ChuckB
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Thanks Steve and Ken! Building a website is definitely not my strong suite and something I would not have even dreamed of trying a year ago. Still needs some tweaking.

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Chris Ensor
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Decided I would give the whole fox style bender thing a try. I made all the parts interchangable so that I would just have to make new molds for each shape. Overall, it went pretty well. I put a couple of african mahogany sides through it. The first one had some rippling, the second one didn't so much. I assume I just didn't leave the side in long enough to get completely dry.

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Upgraded my sidebender too. [:Y:]

Wanted to bend a cutaway for my new build and took the opportunity to build
the temp control and switch for the blanket in the base.
The temp sensor is located left of the temp controller on a wooden block.
Might consider a time-controller altough the egg-timer worked well till now.

In the weekend I will try the bender out on some cheap sides.

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The second is Black Limba (from the Sniggs) and a Lutz spruce top.

P#13 Black Limba/Lutz Cutaway (nylon string)
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Oh that black limba....I wish I had bought all of it when sniggs was selling it. Such beautiful wood! Nice looking box sir.

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