Custom Made Instruments

Example 1 Of A Custom Made Resonator 5 String Banjo.

Built to very high exacting standards to achieve stunning quality of sound, volume & craftsmanship required by all discerning Bluegrass musicians etc.

Mahogany & Maple 3 piece neck with fiddle style peg-head, fitted with Gibson pre-war style truss rod. Truss-rod cover in solid Ebony.

Ebony peg-head & heel veneer, Ebony fret-board bound with boxwood, inlaid with Mother of Pearl Hearts & Flowers design. M O P side position dots.

Three piece Hard Rock Maple pot fitted with a flathead bell metal tone-ring.

All quality hardware fittings acquired  from the States, i e tone-ring, one piece flange, tension ring, tension brackets, shoes, coordinator rods & adjustable kershner tailpiece.

As standard, all my custom built 5 string Banjo’s are fitted with Snuffy Smith 5/8 ins no 2 style bridges.

Resonator veneered in a 12 piece segmented Fiddle-back Mahogany design, with Ebony / Boxwood bandings & edges bound also with Boxwood.

Neck, Pot & Resonator polished entirely by hand in French Polish to a high gloss natural finish.

Example 2 Of A Custom Made Open-Back 5 String Banjo.

Dark polished Mahogany neck with Ebony fingerboard inlaid with adapted Florentine pattern to Brazilian Rosewood peg-head.

Pot made of a 7 ply construction, fitted with Whyte Laydie tone-ring & veneered in Santos Rosewood & decorative banding.

Fitted with adjustable coordinator rods & Kershner adjustable tailpiece.

Set up to play in the Old Timey Style.

I advise for all custom work you strongly consider a visit to my workshop to discuss the finer points of your requirements, i e  special design features, inlays, set ups, & selection of timbers etc.

Also to see & play examples of  the instrument you are interested in having made, plus on-going work in progress.

Example 3 Of A Custom Made Tenor Banjo