Anyone ever built a segmented banjo body?

[Lloyd Johnson]

There are youtube videos on this process and it seems to be pretty straight forward, especially if you buy a neck for it.

 

[Al_]

not yet but I'm going to check it out now!

 

[Bruce White]

no banjo here, but interested for sure

There are youtube videos on this process and it seems to be pretty straight forward, especially if you buy a neck for it.

Lloyd, never built a banjo, but I did build a segmented gigglehorn a couple of years ago.

 

[dpo]

Here is my latest banjo uke. I unfortunately don't have a lathe yet, so I "turn" the rims on a pattern sander in the drill press.
One day I will get a lathe, hopefully.
Dennis
Southern Cross Banjo Ukes
New Zealand

 

[DanPennington]

Yes, I've made hundreds of block banjo rims. I sold them on The Banjo Hangout for about ten years. I recently retired from making rims and building guitars. I sold my custom made rim lathe and bought a Laguna Revo 18 inch to make bowls and boxes. I'll post some photos of a few rims after I figure out how to post them.

 

[DanPennington]

Figured it out.
Here's one of my banjo rims. Standard segmented bowl construction. A banjo rim is just a bowl without a bottom.