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7th December 2014, 12:21 AM #1part time wood mangler and ukulele player
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Demo of a banjo Uke
Made mainly from Forest red decking, a jarah fretboard, some kitchen scraps including oyster shell fret dots and leg of lamb bone nut. The drum head is heat shrunk 2 litre PET pepsi bottle.
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7th December 2014, 10:13 AM #2
Can you tell us a bit about how you shrunk the plastic top?
It sounds pretty good.
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John
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8th December 2014, 09:39 AM #3GOLD MEMBER
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That is amazing, I love it,,..!!!!
Paul
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15th December 2014, 07:45 AM #4
Ahh Titch, you"ve done it again! I'll second Johns request about shrinking the PET bootle for the top. Sound very cool.
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17th December 2014, 09:47 AM #5
Grab a plastic bottle & a hot air gun & have a play with it, try it on plastic milk bottles too.
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20th December 2014, 10:41 PM #6Senior Member
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No doubt about it Titch keeps pumping em out.
Steve
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25th December 2014, 09:50 AM #7part time wood mangler and ukulele player
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Sorry for being so late to reply.
What I did was cut off the top and bottom off a Pepsi 2 litre bottle just going a little into the curved areas. My next build will use a LA ice 2.25 litre bottle because they are a smidgen taller allowing for a bigger drum head.
Cut a notch for the neck. Started from one tack either side of the neck pulling it tight, then a staple in the end to allow the tailpiece to go over followed by either left and right then filling in half way between existing tacks. I did a bit of predrilling the holes to calm my paranoia about splitting as I was using hardwood decking timber. Just made sure the tacks going in around the end left sufficient room for the tailpiece.
Then just gently heated it with the heat gun, worked out I probably should have trimmed it a bit first,
trimmed off excess bottle then gently hit it with the heat gun again.
The customer was well pleased. Together with this one and a few biscuit and cake tin ukes I raised just over $700 for Movember, or as I like to call it More Uke Movember.Last edited by titchtheclown; 25th December 2014 at 05:29 PM. Reason: staple not tack in end.
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