The above banjos are part of his antique and active instrument collection, and the BRC founder wishes all our readers to be safe and be well. On the underside of the Baldwin C neck, the buttress of the ringed Show-Me collar is barely detectable to the eyes of the musician and does not interfere with musicianship. RESULTS Price and other details may vary based on product size and color. The Show-Me collar was installed to stabilize the new 5th string tuner and is hardly visible to the viewer. The above vintage 1968-69 Baldwin C banjo originally came from the factory with an old fashioned 1:1 ratio friction 5th tuner, but the truss rod location prevented proper seating of a replacement geared tuning peg. It is labeled Open G because tuning the open G chord. 5-STRING BANJO G, D, G, B, D (Open G Tuning) The standard 5-string banjo tuning referred to as Open G Tuning procedure. The buttressed “Show-Me” ring is then gently sculpted with sand paper. G D G B D In this post, you will learn about the different types of Banjos and how to tune them accordingly. Shaped somewhat like a signet ring, this collar is constructed by stacking thin layers (about 1.8 mm thick) of maple veneer united with wood glue. You're on the right track with an email to Stelling.On the rare occasion when the truss rod preempts proper seating of the new tuning peg, the BRC founder fashions a wooden collar to act as a spacer and stabilize the replacement tuner. I don't know what it would be called if not a 5th string tuner. Once it's done slipping I trim it and give it my standard treatment. I leave the excess length of a new 5th string hanging off the tuner for a day or two and tune up when it slips. No matter how many wraps I give it around the post, a new string always seems to slide out just a bit. Both friction and geared are installed and removed the same way, pluck it out of the hole and stuff a new one in there.īefore going for tuner repair, make sure it's not the string slipping through the post. Once the gears slip, the tuner needs to be repaired or replaced. If it's a Stelling bluegrass banjo, it probably has a geared 5th string. If the 5th string wraps around a vertical post similar to the other 4, it's geared. A friction tuner is simply a peg stuck in a hole and is generally difficult to tune. Putting in a new 5th peg is pretty easy, you can buy one from Stewart MacDonald or First Quality pretty cheap, if your tuner really is busted somehow.Ī friction tuner would not have gears. You have to be very cautious doing this so that you don't twist the peg and crack the neck, or mar the button or the metal part of the tuner with your vise grips or water pump pliers or whatever. It is correct that "most" 5th string pegs, whether friction or geared, simply pull straight out. A "friction peg" (not geared) can suffer only from a loose screw on the button. Very very rare for a geared 5th peg to "go bad" or strip out. Is it solidly wrapped and cinched around the 5th string tuner, so that it's not slipping? At the tailpiece end, is the loop intact and not unraveling in some way? Inspect the 5th string itself at both ends. These screws can loosen and back out and make it impossible to stay in tune sometimes. Tighten up the little screw that holds the tuner button on. The guitar and mandolin just don't do it for me. Smoother than the originals, thanks to 4:1 planetary gears, sealed lubrication, low-friction bushings, internal tension spring, leather knob washer. Waverly's distinctive machined brass '2-Band' offset gear case and grained ivoroid knob will bring a handsome vintage touch to your banjo. I'm without a banjo until I get it fixed and I'm already having banjo withdrawal symptoms (G). Inspired by the unique pegs used on prewar Gibson banjos. An e-mail to Stelling is in the mail, but until I hear back, I could sure use some information/help for my problem. Maybe it's not called a 5th string tuner and if not, what would it be called? I found nothing about friction tuners, either. My banjo is a Stelling and I've check on the Stelling website and find no 5th string tuners at all. Not exactly techical, but is that right? If not, what do you have to do to repair/replace a 5th string tuner? I'll show my ignorance by saying: I think it's a "friction tuner" and to remove it all you have to do is pull the tuner out and push another one in. Any idea if this is the correct answer or if there's another problem or solution? 12:1 geared peg is available, which makes life much easier for banjo players. I could turn it so far and then it just seemed to slip back to where it was. Its that damn friction fifth peg so often supplied on inexpensive banjos. Yesterday at our jam I had a problem keeping it in tune (not usually a problem at all) and this morning when I picked up the banjo and started tuning, the 5th string wouldn't tune. After a year and a half of trouble shooting the fifth string peg and working through problems with suppliers, the Pegheds geared banjo tuner is now finally. My 5th string tuner seems to have gone bad.
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