Used 5-String Open-Back Banjos
Maker: A.A.Farland
Year: 1920
Notes:
A.A. Farland Grand Concert 5-String Banjo.
Replaced Ebony fingerboard and repaired, but highly visible neck crack.
12 1/2" Maple rim retaining both Farland labels.
28" Scale. Plays Great with Deep Tone.
Carved Heel. Original friction pegs and tailpiece.
Calf-Skin Head.
Maker: Bacon
Year: ca. 1920
Notes:
Bacon Professional FF Banjo with a fine
reproduction Mahogany 5-String neck by Steve Sutherland, with Ebony fingerboard.
From a 10" Mandolin Banjo.
Famous Bacon Internal Resonator pot with 24 3/4" Scale Length.
Planetary Geared Pegs, Plastic Head.
Low Action, Great Sound.
Maker: Bart Reiter
Year: 1993
Notes:
Bart Reiter Special 5-string banjo in near-pristine condition.
Maple neck with Ebony fingerboard.
Rolled brass tone-ring.
5-Star Planet Tuners.
Minimal playing wear.
All-Original with Nice Hard Case.
Maker: Buckbee
Year: 1890
Notes:
An 1890 Buckbee banjo with Dobson-style reproduction 5-string neck by
Intermountain Guitar and Banjo. The original inlaid peghead-facing has been re-used.
Cherry Wood neck with Ebony fingerboard, inlaid with traditional Dobson Victor Pearl Pattern.
Original 11" rim, 26 1/4" scale length.
Near-pristine and un-played condition.
Maker: Christy
Year: 1960's
Notes:
Ex-Long Neck Pete Seeger-style Banjo from Christy Banjos in Boulder, Co.
Influenced by the ODE Banjo Co.
Aluminum 11" Shell.
Elton Geared Pegs.
Figured Maple Neck with Rosewood Fingerboard.
Some fret-wear on the first few frets,
but plays fine with straight neck and good action.
Maker: Cole
Year: 1895
Notes:
Striking Reproduction 5-String neck from Padouk Wood with Ebony fingerboard by Steve Sutherland.
10" Original Cole Rim from a Banjo-Mandolin.
9 7/8" rim with 24 3/4" Scale Length.
Boat Heel.
Maker: Cole, Wm.
Year: 1890
Notes:
A Largely Original Cole's Eclipse Banjo... The peghead Man-in-the-Moon pearl inlays have been replaced
and the neck refinished.
10 5/8" Rim with 27" Scale Length.
A Really Fine Players' Instrument.
Maker: Cole, Wm.
Year: 1897
Notes:
Rare Cole's Eclipse with spectacular engraved mother-of-pearl inlays [possibly by Consalvi] and carved heel.
The 3rd fret inlay appears to be a replacement. A couple of old repaired heel-cracks.
10 15/16" rim with 26" Scale Length.
Calf-Skin Head. The pot is all-original with the H&N sets apparently re-plated at some time.
A period and possibly original Elite tailpiece.
Original Grover friction pegs with ivoroid buttons.
Straight neck and good action.
Maker: Dobson/Buckbee
Year: 1890
Notes:
A Pony Banjo from around 1890.
8" rim, 21" Scale.
The pot is original, the neck is a reproduction
of an original based on the truncated remains of the original neck.
Walnut and ebony, shell inlays in the Dobson style.
Skin head, modern planetary geared pegs,
Original tailpiece.
Gig bag.
Maker: Fairbanks
Year: 1893
Notes:
An Excellent Fairbanks Electric with Carved Heel and Fancy Engraved Inlays.
Mostly Original and in Lovely Used Condition.
11 1/2" rim with 26" Scale.
Skin Head.
Maker: Fairbanks
Year: 1891
Notes:
Original A.C. Fairbanks Electric 12" pot with fine reproduction neck by Steve Sutherland.
The original peghead facing with engraved pearl has been re-used;
mahogany neck and ebony fingerboard, 26 1/4" Scale.
Engraved fingerboard pearl accurately and nicely reproduced.
Carved Heel.
Gig Bag.
Maker: Fairbanks
Year: 1902
Notes:
An Original Fairbanks 5-String Banjo
with a replaced ebony fingerboard and peg-head facing,
with added appropriate pearl inlays.
10" Rim.
26" Scale Length
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1963
Notes:
A Pristine Gibson RB-170 Folk Model Banjo.
All Original with virtually no playing wear.
Elton Geared Pegs, Kluson Tailpiece and Armrest.
Original Gibson Alligator chipboard case.
Includes some Provenance.
Maker: Gibson Reproduction
Year: 1990's?
Notes:
Nice Open-Back Gibson Reproduction banjo by unknown professional maker.
Figured Maple neck with Ebony fingerboard inlaid with Bella Voce pearl pattern.
3/4" 3-ply Maple rim with large tube tone-ring, possibly sourced from late 1920's Gibson
Tenor Banjo.
11" head with 26" scale length.
Tension hoop looks like maybe 1970's Gibson.
A few dings in the finish, but otherwise un-played.
New Hard Case.
Maker: Intermountain Guitar and Banjo
Year: 1978
Notes:
One of a few dozen Whyte Laydie model banjos we made completely in our shop in the 1970's and '80's.
Curly Maple neck with Ebony fingerboard with a Fairbanks Electric inlay pattern.
Some finish wear on the back of the neck and the odd ding and scratch from being [carefully] played.
Hard Shell case included.
Maker: OME
Year: 2007
Notes:
Mahogany Neck with Abalone-Inlaid Ebony Fingerboard.
Maple Rim without Metal Tone-Ring.
11" Rim with 26" Scale.
Frailing Scoop.
All-Original with Virtually No Playing Wear.
Maker: Orpheum
Year: 1921
Notes:
12 3/16" Rim from an Orpheum #1 Plectrum banjo.
Reproduction 5-String Neck by Intermountain Guitar and Banjo.
25 1/2" Scale Length. Planetary Geared Pegs.
Maker: Orpheum
Year: 1917
Notes:
The famous Orpheum #3 Banjo.
11 1/4" rim with 27" Scale.
Top-of-the-Line and Excellent.
All straight and original.
Grover Friction pegs with Mother-of-Pearl knobs.
Geared Pegs would be a sensible up-grade.
Maker: S.S.Stewart
Year: 1890
Notes:
Nice Universal Favorite banjo, one of S.S. Stewart's most popular Models.
11 1/2" Rim with 27" Scale.
Modern Planetary Geared Pegs.
Some Action Adjustment.
A modest attempt at cleaning the rim exterior.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1927
Notes:
Original Vega Artist 10 15/16" pot.
Exceptional Mahogany 5-string neck by Wyatt Fawley
featuring an exquisite rendering of the oft-talked about
but seldom seen Chubby Dragon engraved-pearl pattern
which once adorned top-grade early Vega and Bacon Banjos.
The neck is like new and little-played.
Modern German planetary geared pegs in gold.
