How to fix a banjo - Free Luthier Advice

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These are many banjo building, repair and useful maintenance tips that I think you may love to read. Some are getting a little dated but all were a labor of love for me. Not all of them are aimed toward the banjo, as I have many articles of interest to the person building and repairing guitars and mandolins as well.

Dotson A-5 model Mandolin	Installing Railroad Spikes (5th String Capos) NEW VIDEO
Relocating a 5th String Nut	Building a Bone Nut from Scratch NEW VIDEO
Neck Notch Surgery	Filling Dings in a Banjo Finish
Basic Binding Installation	Installing Side Dots
Truss Rod Installation	Refretting a Banjo
Banjo Anatomy and Assembly	Filling fingerboard chips
Shaping and drilling a Peghead	Strap Buttons on a Banjo are a Bad Idea
Left Handed 5th string Peg	Beware of Metal Side Dots
How to ship a banjo	Changing a Skin Banjo Head
How NOT to ship an instrument	Changing a Plastic Banjo Head
I nstalling Binding on a Resonator	Building Banjo Bridges
Restoration of an old Tenor Banjo		Correcting and setting up Nut Action
Restoring an old 5-String Banjo		Cutting a Nut Seat in a Newly Constructed Banjo
Trimming a Banjo Fingerboard after Installation		I nstalling a Fishman Pickup in your Guitar
Removal and replacement of a 5th string tuner		Gibson Style Binding Installation
Retrofitting Inlay (inlaying an existing headstock)		Properly Fitting a Tone Ring to a Wood Rim
Setting the Intonation on a banjo and Bridge location		Properly Changing Strings
Banjo Heel Shaping Tip		Leveling, Crowning and Polishing frets
Rose Inlay Installation		Listen to how Resonators sound when you Ping them
Removing a tone ring that is too tight		Sunburst Finishing
Missing Inlay Replacement on an old S.S. Stewart Banjo		Binding a Banjo Headstock
Fitting a new banjo neck to a one-piece pot by hand		Replacing a Friction Peg with a Geared one NEW VIDEO
Listen to how Tone Rings sound when you Ping them		Artificially Aging Replacement Tuning Buttons
Which Banjo is a Pre-War and which is a Reproduction?	Mastertone Pearl Block Refurbishment
Bringing a MASTERTONE block back from the dead	The first Dotson F-5 Mandolin
Changing Strings on an Autoharp