Hey Ya’ll!
I’ve been wondering this for awhile now. Is it possible to put a tone ring & flange on a banjo that doesn’t have those? And is it easier to put a tone ring and flange on a metal body banjo or wooden body banjo?
Hope Ya’ll are having a wonder week!
Kaden Albritton. 
Probably not, as the rim has to be cut so that the tone ring can fit on it. I’m not familiar with metal-bodied banjers.
From your description it sounds as though your describing a banjo that may have had a vellum skin head held on with a tension hoop. Can you post a picture @Chicken_wing Chris ?
@Archie I’ll try to get one! the rim is metal. and it has a normal remo banjo head. its a Oscar Schimidt OB3LH-A
here’s some pics @Archie @BanjoBen I would get a better pic of the back of the banjo but my phone is being coo coo. 
Hi Chris
So this is a mass produced low end beginners banjo, Not what I thought it might have been which looks more like this. This is a banjo that uses goat skin or vellum, held on with a tension hoop. This is how banjos used to look like before the Remo plastic heads became popular. This design dates back to the 1900’s or earlier.
As @BanjoBen has said already - quote “Probably not, as the rim has to be cut so that the tone ring can fit on it.”
That said however, there are folks out there that do luthiering as a hobby and maybe they have figured out a way to add a tone ring to improve the sound on these low end economy instruments.
Head over to the Banjo Hangout and post your query in this link. Be sure to include the pictures and I am sure you will get a quick response.
Will do! thank you for help @Archie.
I plan to get a better banjo very soon. I just wanted to see if I could make this banjo any better.
I would encourage you to experiment with it, you’ll learn a lot in the process for sure.
