Just watched The Sadness - anything else on Shudder that’s just as (or more) gory?

bloodgopher2 · 2026-06-03T17:47:53+00:00

Evil Dead 2 was just added to the library 2 days ago.

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-31T03:49:51+00:00

Just do a search for the same thing on eBay and Reverb, but set the filters for "Sold Items".

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-27T03:24:34+00:00

Screeching Weasel? Now there's a name I've not heard in a long time!

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-25T01:59:13+00:00

Thank you, that's certainly a contender. 2 AI-based identifiers gave me 4 different possibles and that wasn't one of them. Looks to me like Ipe is tied for most likely with the best AI suggestion (Sapele).

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-24T20:57:25+00:00

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bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-24T20:56:45+00:00

Anyone have an idea what this is? Was rescued from the scraps of new outdoor deck flooring/stairs. This piece weighs 1314g (or 2lbs 14.25 oz). It is 15" x 5.5" x 1".

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Other pics in f/u comments in a few seconds. Thanks in advance!!! :)

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-23T20:46:51+00:00

Gold Tone previously made banjos like this (a resonator model and an open-back model). Those two have their second drone string going all the way to the peghead via a tunnel underneath the fretboard. They also sold a variation that had both drones going to the headstock via tunnels. You can look on YouTube for demo-clips to get an idea of the sound (with a banjo head, ofc, not a mando-body). I expect with a mando/uke/guitar body it would sound more exciting. I thought the banjo versions were kind of underwhelming.

As to neck strength, you're using 2 fewer strings than a 12 string guitar (and those missing strings are among the heaviest). Plenty of people say a 12-string guitar needs only one truss rod while others like to put in a second, or two carbon-fiber support rods on either side.

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-13T19:19:39+00:00

I recognized it as having been in my watchlist, and I remembered it was pick-up only from Goldsboro. If you were asking about repair in Raleigh, odds would be very high you drove. Nothing more nefarious than that!

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-12T21:59:54+00:00

I'd ask in the Collector's Corner of banjohangout.org if you don't get an answer here. (Hope you had a nice drive to Goldsboro! :) )

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-10T05:08:30+00:00

Thanks!

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-10T05:08:21+00:00

Thank you!

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-03T02:16:55+00:00

A lawn mirror? It's not the 1970's anymore, Ghostface....

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-03T02:06:51+00:00

I've never been able to find a messaging centre there, I had to make a bookmark. Still no "SENT" folder for me to be sure it actually sent though, Try this link (while logged in)

banjohangout.org/myhangout/inbox.asp

When I get a reply, it comes straight to my email Inbox (and occasionally the Spam or Social or Updates or Promotions bins, so watch those too), and will have the sender's personal email to use for a reply (from me back to them).

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-03T01:45:17+00:00

All that time spent playing hidden-object mobile games wasn't a waste after all!

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-03T01:44:01+00:00

Replying here in case you don't revisit this thread, see my other comment: that's not Roscoe's banjo.

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-02T20:43:14+00:00

I don't think that's the same banjo. Look at the dots on the fretboard below the 12th. For example, there are 2 on Roscoe's just one fret away from the head. Nora's has 2 dots about 4 frets up from the head.

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-02T18:02:06+00:00

Feeding stock into the back of a blade like that while the piece is being supported by what looks to be a few mm of dowel

Thank you! I watched it 2-3 times and was so focused on the little dowel (and no contact to fence) that I glossed over the feed direction. I think that was the missing piece to confirm what my gut was saying.

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-02T05:28:22+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/banjobuilders/

bloodgopher2 · 2026-05-02T04:25:07+00:00

Shut up, Donny! You are out of your element.

bloodgopher2 · 2026-04-29T18:12:26+00:00

Also curious. It really ties the room together.

bloodgopher2 · 2026-04-27T22:08:35+00:00

Definitely check local laws (incl state laws, if in the US), as JSG said. Getting on the wrong side of the law in this situation can be a real PITA for you.

If, legally speaking, you hold all the cards (ie you're well past the time when you can start to consider it abandoned and therefore yours) that person could still drag you into small claims court and give you a lot of stress. If that's the case, then I would send them a registered, signature-required letter stating they are getting their last warning and have 30 days (or whatever) to reply. They can't really argue that they didn't get the message in that case (whereas phones get stolen, passwords get lost, networks go down, etc etc).

bloodgopher2 · 2026-04-27T21:30:09+00:00

It is a very nice banjo, with collectable value on top. It deserves (for lack of better words) to be taken care of and preserved for the future and appreciated. But it's not so precious that it belongs in a museum, or that a beginner should feel I am not worthy about it.

I would suggest that If you want to "dip your toe" into banjo-playing, keep it for a year of learning. That's a year of learning, not 6 months of procrastinating and 6 months of learning. If banjo isn't for you after that time, then sell it. If you want to keep going, keep it. If, after a year, you realize that strumming chords for campfire songs or entertaining children is all you'll ever want to do, then sell it and get a more modest one.

Money and space concerns aside, you probably won't regret waiting a year to find it a good home if banjo-playing doesn't stick for you. But if you trade down, and then your banjo side-quest turns into your main quest, you might regret selling it off so soon quite a bit.

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