THE GOODTIME ARMREST
Tools needed: 9/32” bracket wrench
- Start by holding the Goodtime banjo in front of you with the head and bridge facing you and the logo at 12 o’clock. Starting from the tailpiece (the metal plate that the strings are fastened to) locate the 2nd & 4th brackets from the tailpiece on the 5th string side (short string).
- Loosen the 2nd and 4th bracket nuts until the brackets (J-bolts) come off the tension hoop. Completely remove these and install the two “bent angle” hooks enclosed in your package into the shoes that held the previous bracket hooks.
- Sit the armrest flush to the tension hoop in the area of the loose hooks. You will have one hook between them that is still on the tension hoop.
- Align the loose brackets (J-bolts) with the slots in the Goodtime armrest. You will see the top edge of the tension hoop through the slots when holding the armrest in the proper alignment with the tension hoop.
- Insert the bent hook of the 2nd bracket through the slot and up over the edge of the tension hoop.
- Once the hook is in place over the tension hoop, tighten the nut so the bracket (J-bolt) is snug, but don’t tighten it real tight yet.
- Insert the bent hook of the 4th bracket through the slot, over the edge of the tension hoop and snug it down.
- Now tighten both nuts as they were before, matching the tension of the nuts on either side of them.
The armrest should be sitting snug against the tension hoop once you are finished.