Nice job Zach! Are those frets set into the neck, or do you have a fingerboard? Are you an accomplished banjo picker?
A 96 year old lady in our church told me that she used to play the banjo. A couple of Sundays later, she asked if I'd re-string her banjo for her. I said, You mean you still have the banjo? She said yes, it belonged to her dad, and he bought it before he married her mom. It was a used instrument when he bought it. I picked up some strings and stopped by her house to get the banjo. The case was falling apart, but the instrument was in fine shape. It was a five string. Blond color. No name on it, but lots of inlay on the headstock and fretboard. Had a calfskin head, and no resonator. Friction pegs. Looked like a brass tone ring. It had a mandolin tailpiece on it, with some of the hooks broken off. Something I noticed on it - the dot markers on the fretboard were laid out like those on a guitar, rather than the common banjo layout. I strung it up, and it sounded pretty good. I left it tuned low (scared of the old calfskin head) and it had a neat John Hartford sound. I made her promise not to let some shyster talk her out of it. She was a widow with no children, and she gave it to her great nephew, who is a guitar player. It was truly a family heirloom. She passed away in 2008, and the old banjo is in good hands.
Wish you wasn't so darn far away - I love to back up a good banjo picker.
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