How (not) to skin a banjo.

[Stub Mandrel]

Here's some useful advice on re-skinning an antique zither banjo.

 

After soaking the skin, fitting a flesh hoop, stretching the skin with the hoop and carefully tensioning all eighteen screws, you may find it useful to emply a pair of screwdrivers to coax the nut blank in its little plastic bag out of the inside of the instrument.