from the land of windmills, dikes and wooden shoes.....
It seems like such a real long time ago, sigh...

I don't know from banjos. What is a pot/rim and what are the turned
parts that you are fastening together?
The pot, or drum (the big round part of a banjo that the skin
is mounted on), is fastened to the neck with these hanger bolts. There
are other ways to fasten it but this is [traditionally] the easiest
way of doing it. Yup, I agree, it sure doesn't seem hi-tech but even
banjos $5,000 and up are built that way. Of course, they do use nicer
looking bolts than the ones from Home Depot...
This pot by the way, just looks like a hoop - 11 inch diameter, 5/8"
thick, 2 1/2" tall. I made it gluing up 3 segmented layers (2 jatoba,
1 ebony) and pretty much all the steps along the way to get me the
finished pot became possible only & totally because of the great and
generous advice dished out to this total rookie by all of you great
people on this group - take a bow folks, you've more than earned it!
Bart.
P.S. it'll be a while but I'll post pics when the whole thing is done.

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