{"id":3685,"date":"2008-06-15T20:43:23","date_gmt":"2008-06-16T00:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=3685"},"modified":"2008-06-15T20:43:23","modified_gmt":"2008-06-16T00:43:23","slug":"at-bill-rickards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/15\/at-bill-rickards\/","title":{"rendered":"at Bill Rickard’s"},"content":{"rendered":"

I went up to Bill Rickard<\/a>‘s yesterday to have Hugh Hunter<\/a> tweak my banjo<\/a>. Unfortunately Bill wasn’t there; he father died earlier in the week, and the memorial was later in the day. My condolences to Bill and his family.<\/p>\n

Hugh was busily turning a banjo-uke block rim on the lathe when I arrived. After a little setup work (file the second string nut to kill a buzz, reduce the head tension to get the tubaphone sound), I looked around the shop.<\/p>\n

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\n Tone Rings and rims – including Bill’s new Dobson tone ring
\n<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nHardware – bracket bands, Whyte Ladye parts, etc.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\n The work in progress rack<\/em><\/p>\n

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\nWhyte Laydie at rear, Tubaphone up front.<\/em><\/p>\n

For a banjo and engineering nerd, Bill’s shop is amazing. Get yourself invited up there if you get a chance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I went up to Bill Rickard‘s yesterday to have Hugh Hunter tweak my banjo. Unfortunately Bill wasn’t there; he father died earlier in the week, and the memorial was later in the day. My condolences to Bill and his family. Hugh was busily turning a banjo-uke block rim on the lathe when I arrived. After […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[19,11],"tags":[1313,2902],"class_list":["post-3685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banjo","category-photo","tag-aurora","tag-banjo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Xr","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}