The Authentic One-Stringed Canjo

Two young ladies from the “Tar Heel” state of NC, twin sisters as “tweens” with totally different personalities, were the surprised recipients of their very own custom created musical works of art as Christmas 2018 gifts from their grandparents. The grandparents, Lloyd & Mary, described the girls as one liking cats, and loving things that are a bit “different”, and the other whose middle name is “Rose”, likes girly things and is more prim & proper in her mannerisms and tastes; two girls born at the same time, from the same womb, but each with much different personalities. Lloyd & Mary decided the best way to choose the materials for their twin granddaughters would be to travel from their NC home to Tennessee in order to personally meet the master canjoe instrument maker, CanJoe*John, in person, and to tour his Blountville, TN shop. They set up a weekend to do so, arrived in Blountville on a Friday early afternoon, and after a brief tour of the CanJoe “museum” of archived prototypes, and related memorabilia in his personal collection, they then found themselves engaged in the shop with all kinds of options to decide upon. They wanted the instruments to be special (as each that CanJoe*John builds always are) and more details about the girls were revealed as the in-shop experience unfolded. Due that neither girl consumes soft drinks, the choice of cans (always the starting point of any instrument) required some ‘cansideration‘. Upon their discovery that CanJoe*John has a very, very limited edition of custom designed, personal cans left in his stock, the choice was to use one for each instrument. Lloyd & Mary also wanted them made from uniquely significant hardwoods, so CanJoe*John presented some beautiful, very old, wormy white oak barn wood from his huge inventory of materials, and they agreed to have them crafted from the oak. As discussions for more options continued, the ideas abounded. It was finally settled that one should reflect something about a rose, and the other should involve something including a cat.

Now, it takes several days, or longer, from order received to completion of any instrument hand crafted by CanJoe*John, and a lot of thought goes into every one that he makes. As the antique plank of white oak was being ripped into appropriate dimensions for the instrument necks, CanJoe*John noticed one to be near flawless, and the other to have far more wormy holes and patterns, yet both cut from the same board side by side of each other. In considering the girls’ personalities as detailed earlier, the tightly straight grained piece was then chosen for Rose, and the more wormy, dissimilar grained piece was chosen for “Cat”. In order to find items to include in the instruments’ finish that would separate the two as more distinctly related to each individual, a search for some things that represent cats and roses was pursued. CanJoe*John scoured the shelves of a local hobby store and finally discovered small tokens as symbols for both items needed, cats and roses. These were then permanently affixed to the head stocks of the associated instruments. Upon applying the stains, and fillers to finish the woods, a surprising artifact in the “Cat” instrument appeared in the finger board grain. A natural cat image was enhanced by the stain and was amazingly included by nature to be in the finger board of the Cat instrument.

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For all inquiries, orders, or information, please contact CanJoe*John directly by phone to 423-612-4320

In the spring of 2018 CanJoe*John received a phone call one day from a young man, named Kyle, who had recently purchased a one-stringed “diddly bow” from a popular internet based on line supplier/store that makes and sells cigar box stringed instruments, one-stringed “canjo” instruments, and other related items of which Kyle found by an internet search. Upon receiving his mail ordered cigar box diddly bow instrument from the on line business, he was immediately most disappointed. Kyle is left handed and had requested the one he ordered to be made for a left handed picker. When he got it, the cigar box was cracked and the label on it, when played left handed, displayed upside down. Further, the finger board of that instrument was crudely made from rough, unfinished, inexpensive, common stock wood, so Kyle called the business to inquire about getting an exchange for one like he had expected. Upon contacting the proprietor of that business, Kyle was informed that what he got was what he paid for, and no exchange or refund was considered. That phone call from Kyle to CanJoe*John, that day, was to inquire about ordering another one, but one of extreme level high quality, and to be as master crafted to suit his personal tastes and desires. Kyle made arrangements to travel over to the Blountville, TN based shop of the CanJoe Company and he brought along with him a beautiful black with red and gold lettered “Punch” cigar box that he had chosen to be used for his instrument. So, after lots of discussion about the details, desires and expectations were exchanged, a deal was struck to commission CanJoe*John to create a super fine, one-of-kind in the world, hand crafted and extremely detailed, one-stringed diddly bow instrument with all the bells and whistles imaginably possible. Kyle wanted only “the very best diddly bow ever made”, to date.

Below is a photograph of Kyle holding and showing off his newly finished instrument. The setting where the following photos were made was where he was as a special guest on the very popular “Mountain Matinee” radio program, aired LIVE from the NE Tennessee’s FM 96.3, “The Possum“ studio. He was there to talk about his newly made instrument:

The following photographs of Kyle’s custom designed and hand crafted “diddly bow”, dubbed the “Diddly-Jo“, due it being fretted with the diatonic musical scale pattern and played more like a guitar, or banjo type instrument, has both a custom hand wound magnetic pickup, and a piezoelectric pickup inside of the box. It uses a three way switch to make it function by either pickup, separately, or as combined. The pickups are controlled by both tone and volume pots, with the control knobs for each shown at the inside end of the box. The electronic systems built for this instrument were custom created by Jack Bradshaw, a specialist team member of the CanJoe Company.

The instrument’s neck is of very exotic wormy chestnut with a super fine, antique wormy cherry wood finger board laminated together. The finger board has visual fret markers added on its surface at the key notes, shown as being black or red stained in colors, and has two different mother-of-pearl dove images inlaid in to the finger board, one at the instrument’s 3rd fret, and the other at the 10th fret positions. Along the edge of the finger board are additional fret markers of imbedded, small diamonds placed at the 3rd, the 7th, and the 10th fret positions, as well. Inlaid into the instrument’s head stock are a Christian cross of carved turquoise stone, with another emblem of turquoise stone just above the cross representing the stone of Christ’s tomb, as rolled away. Beside of it is another small diamond representing the spirit of Christ reflected by its colorful scintillating facets. Also inlaid in the instrument’s head stock is imbedded a very special multi-faceted cut crystal ball, seen adjacent to and reflected by the silver tuner key head. It represents the Earth and sparkles with the colors of the rainbow as representing God’s many people. The instrument’s fine ebony wood bridge is inlaid with a braid of beautiful abalone and the slant cut of the instrument’s head stock is imbedded with the CanJoe Company trademark cut crystal five point star. The “Punch” cigar box is tweaked out, trimmed with beautiful brass corner brackets to finish the whole thing as being a truly gorgeous work of musical art. There is no instrument made anywhere else in the world like it.

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For ALL inquiries, or orders, please call CanJoe*John direct at 423-612-4320.
The CanJoe Company, 2357 Feathers Chapel Rd, Blountville TN, 37617

When Herschel R. Brown began creating the cool one-stringed instruments, he had no idea that they would ever become so popular that literally hundreds, and even thousands, of folks across America and around the world would eventually jump on the band wagon and start making and offering their own versions of similar items using his idea. Though when Hershel first began, too, he had some help. In his spacious woodworking shop, Herschel having had special saws and jigs created in order to mass manufacture his simple design, he brought scrap pine wood from the construction sites of his building contractor’s business in to the shop where he could rip out dozens of fingerboards at a time from the 2X4s and pine boards he recovered. Herschel had a couple of employees who would work after hours helping fret the boards and then store those ready to ship out as kits in the shop, on shelves. He supplied a woodworker’s supply company for a few years with the parts to be sold online or out of their catalog. He also made many completed instruments from the pine wood fingerboards he kept in stock, as well, mostly to give away, as Herschel said, “I’ve probably given more away than I’ve ever sold”. He estimated that he had made and distributed over 30,000 of his canjoe instruments since he began.

Herschel was a super kind, generous man and loved to help by donating many of his instruments to schools, as well as others who wanted to use his canjoes in order to teach and to learn how to play stringed music. He also gave many to sick kids at hospitals, too, giving lots of his instruments away freely in order to help spread the canjoe joy. Or, too, he’d sell to those who discovered or sought out his cool little instruments for what amount helped cover his cost to manufacture. His instruments were, from the get-go, a hit and he sold thousands of them through the wood working supply company and by his own marketing and personal distribution methods.

Another helper who often visited his shop in those earliest days, and who was one of the first that Herschel had shown his initial finished design canjoe instrument prototypes, giving one of them to him (still owned), is the man now known world wide as “CanJoe*John”. The story about CanJoe*John and Herschel’s relationship is well known to those who personally knew Herschel, and/or John, as well as hundreds of thousands who, now, have followed or discovered the connections. John was Herschel’s personal friend who often was invited by Herschel to view his hand made mountain dulcimers as he finished them. One evening Herschel called John and told him, “you need to come by the shop sometime soon, I want to show you the cutest little one-stringed dulcimers I’ve been making. I call them ‘can-joes'”.

John stopped by the shop that night, and upon Herschel’s initial introduction of his newly created instruments, John instantly became enamored by the cool one-stringed things. Herschel pulled one of them down from where it had been hanging on a hook and he handed to John. Herschel then said, “go out and show these to folks. They’ll love them.” So John took his gift from Herschel and started showing it around. Sure enough, everybody wanted one. For a couple of more years, John would stop by Herschel’s shop fairly often to visit, pitching in to help where needed. In 1993, he and his wife, Sissy, relocated back to TN, but John and Herschel continued their business and friendship relationship from a distance, with John in Tennessee and Herschel remaining in eastern NC.
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John and Herschel communicated frequently, often collaborating on instrument design improvement ideas, and keeping in close touch over those remaining years, all the way up until Herschel’s death. In their collaborations of marketing ideas of the instruments, Herschel always kept with his most simple design, pine only for materials used in his stocks, but John quickly discovered that a huge number of interested buyers wanted custom created instruments. They wanted, and quite often requested special woods, specific cans, embellishments to their own instruments that nobody else have, or that nobody else can offer. So, below, are a bunch of photos of various custom crafted instruments that John, CanJoe*John, has designed, created and built, with these being some examples of the most contemporary instruments made over the recent past couple of years.

For ordering, making all inquiries, or just wanting to talk to the genuine successor as called the “CanJoe Man“, a title officially bestowed by Herschel’s widow, herself, as she passed the torch, please call and ask for CanJoe*John at 423-612-4320.

Montage of “Cat-Jo” parts

The electric”Hillbilly-jo”

Proud owner of a custom made electric CanJoe*John made, CanJoe Company instrument.

Three special instruments!

Happy smiles from across the miles!

Laying in my fiddle case!

In honor of a true American hero

In honor of 40 years servive!

Special Service model

Another commissioned work of art.

Daddy Bear, Momma Bear & Baby Bear

The Deluxe CanJoes

“God, Country, Service, & State

Brother Sebastian as he receives his new “Spiderman” CanJoe

Matching mahogany for young siblings.

Daddy Bear, Momma Bear & Baby Bear

Herschel R. Brown