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Quickstep192 - Posted - 11/25/2009: 19:28:21
I thought I remembered seeing a post that described a dowel stick ferrule of sorts that would let you adjust the stick front-to-back, but my searches can't find it. Did I dream this?
KE - Posted - 11/25/2009: 20:48:32
Are you thinking of the adjuster on the old Cole banjos?
KE - Posted - 11/25/2009: 20:55:27
Like this?
mike gregory - Posted - 11/26/2009: 03:48:48
I would call the above picture a "top-to-bottom" adjuster, but it depends on what "front to back" means, in the mind of the original asker of the question.
I fellow here in Milwaukee, back in ummmm, 1968 or so, put an old neck onto an old pot (they had never met before) and cobbled up something rather similar, using a brass "corner brace" on which he had made an elongated hole, so that I could tilt the neck and then tighten a bolt to hold it at that angle .
uncle.fogey - Posted - 11/26/2009: 12:58:36
Those things are neat, and I've seen other versions, but using them to adjust the action can compromise the connection between the neck and the rim or force the rim out-of round just like coordinator rods. I wouldn't use something like that for more than a minimal adjustment - they don't take the place of a proper neck angle.
diarmaid - Posted - 11/27/2009: 15:51:46
theres a similar adjuster on the paramount and windsor banjos, framus copied them in the 70's too. The wooden dowel adjusters are never going to put enough force to distort a rim.
