Paul Monaco's Page

Paul, so moving to Nashville? I live 28 miles from off I-40 going west in Fairview. Sorry about heart transplant. We have a lot of great hospitals for such. Keep in touch. I'm literally home bound right now. Have developed seizures and till they get meds right I'm on driving and work restrictions. You cannot tell by looking at me when I have them, but they cause me to momentarily loose touch with things, actually had a wreck and did not know it.

My Yahoo is tennysonfrank@yahoo.com but I only check once a week. Comcast is franklin.tennyson@comcast.net better for getting through.

Paul, I glue a support piece under the lid, and screw up through this into the lid and neck piece on the ones where the neck is on the top [outside] of the lid. Here is a question for you, love your builds, saw the banjo build, where can I get a pattern for the neck? I have a cookie tin and want to use it to build a banjo but cannot find a good template.

hey I wanna buy some thing but I can't send you a note until you accept friend request

the last part of the info may read a bit weird, so in summary, choose metal film caps if available...they cost more, but are more efficient at eliminating 60Hz hum

Hi Paul, I found this info on guitarnuts.com regarding your question about tone capacitors.

"The higher the resistance of a tone pot, the higher the value of the capacitor
must be to achieve the same tonal response. Capacitors also carry a voltage
rating but in guitar circuits the voltage rating is only significant for the
isolation capacitor because the normal operating voltages in a guitar are
miniscule."

 This, according to the website, is different when dealing with capacitors in amplifiers, because amps deal with very high dc voltage.

They also suggest the following... " ceramic disk capacitors which are cheap but electrically noisy, to metal film
capacitors which are more expensive but "leak" less DC current and are therefore
quieter, to electrolytics which are available in very large values -- but which
are very noisy and tend to become worse with age."

Hope this helps

welcome Paul, it nice to know that i'm not the only woodcarver, that has been bitten by the cigarbox guitar bug.