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Step 13Bridge
For an instant bridge you can just shove a pen under your strings to hear how your banjo sounds.
Then you whittle a bridge from hard wood. It's a triangular prism with some notches on the top for the strings. The one on my store-bought banjo is 1/2" high and the strings are spread 1+5/8" overall.
The lighter and taller your bridge is the louder your banjo will be. If you cut away the bottom leaving three little legs that will let your banjo ring more.
On this banjo I didn't make a tailpiece, I just put a bunch of screws in the bottom for the strings to loop over. That puts a lot of sideways force on the end strings at the bridge. So I made a tailpiece for the next banjo.
Then you whittle a bridge from hard wood. It's a triangular prism with some notches on the top for the strings. The one on my store-bought banjo is 1/2" high and the strings are spread 1+5/8" overall.
The lighter and taller your bridge is the louder your banjo will be. If you cut away the bottom leaving three little legs that will let your banjo ring more.
On this banjo I didn't make a tailpiece, I just put a bunch of screws in the bottom for the strings to loop over. That puts a lot of sideways force on the end strings at the bridge. So I made a tailpiece for the next banjo.
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