brad347
12-11-2006, 04:23 PM
Hey all. This is my first post in the acoustic instruments forum.
I have an old Epiphone Recording model A tenor banjo from the late(?) 20's that I'm fixing up. Picked it up for cheap because it was missing some parts.
It is missing a couple of small things I need to get it going. One is a small thumbscrew in the tailpiece that looks like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/jazz347/IM000056.jpg
Another is a rod threaded on both ends used to couple the neck to the body. Like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/jazz347/IM000057.jpg
You can see where one of the threaded rods is broken off at the end, rendering it too short to be useful.
I'm not too picky about having authentic original parts or whatever, I just want to get this banjo up and playable. I'm not too knowledgable about this stuff because I'm a guitarist and banjo doubler, not the other way around. Any ideas on where I would begin to look for small parts like this? Thanks!
I have an old Epiphone Recording model A tenor banjo from the late(?) 20's that I'm fixing up. Picked it up for cheap because it was missing some parts.
It is missing a couple of small things I need to get it going. One is a small thumbscrew in the tailpiece that looks like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/jazz347/IM000056.jpg
Another is a rod threaded on both ends used to couple the neck to the body. Like this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v283/jazz347/IM000057.jpg
You can see where one of the threaded rods is broken off at the end, rendering it too short to be useful.
I'm not too picky about having authentic original parts or whatever, I just want to get this banjo up and playable. I'm not too knowledgable about this stuff because I'm a guitarist and banjo doubler, not the other way around. Any ideas on where I would begin to look for small parts like this? Thanks!