Rick
B's Workpage
2-2016
1920's B&D
Silver Bell Tenor
27037

Good original example

Paintings and gravings
are good

Mute is functional




3 orig tuners,
rough... with one friction, will be replaced, customer
furnished Gotoh's

Makers mark

Neck has solid steel bar truss from factory proven by wooden plug over the
laminate as well as weight.

Friction tuner eroded
celluloid, I will fill and hide with new tuner body

Celluloid shrinkage on
binding is normal, and frets are sticking thru it.
Will seal fret
blocks which are always loose from the fingerboard.


Fret Work

Installing #147 wire,
and will seal with #10
cyano
Fingerboard shows normal
cupping and glue will seal the irregular areas.
Repairing tuner hole damage
#20 white
Kicker
Dowel with wax paper as a
release mechanism


After it hardens I will
pull dowel and flatten it

A good repair, all
hidden under tuner body so it needs no matching
I will wet sand the
yellowing from the rest and it will all be more uniform.

Front overlay sealed and
cleaned/buffed/waxed

Finish stripped,
celluloid's sealed
I will scrape the
yellowed lacquer from the heel cap so it also is white again,
leaving all the colored areas original

Taking on clear coats

Frets leveled

Crowned

End dressing

Side smoothing

Fine paper then I will
hit them with the fret polishing wheel
Resonator back

The few hairline cracks
that it had in the celluloid I sealed up before removing the
yellowed finish that
was on it.

Now I am showing 3
procedures,
Fine wet sanding with 800
grit so as not to lose lines, but get it cleaned up
Cleaning out the
concentrics with my scribe so that they can take on new blacking.
Rubbing in the blacking.

After a light wet sanding
with 1200 grit on everything but the lines., ready to buff.

Buffed back to a high shine and waxed
ASSEMBLY

Gotoh's turn freely, I like these tuners

Mute adjusted

SETUP

DR Strings and REMO head
furnished by www.bedfordbanjoshop.com
Banjo plays well with good tone and action
Mute actuates properly.
Ready for final adjustments if needed,, when customer arrives.
FINAL PICS





Thanks for watching
Vinnie