Used 5-String Open-Back Banjos
Maker: Vega
Year: 1922
Notes:
All-Original Style M Tubaphone Pot with 11 13/16" Rim.
Reproduction 5-String Neck by Intermountain Guitar and Banjo [#367, 1976].
Maple Neck with Ebony Fingerboard and Engraved Pearl Inlays.
27" Scale with 20 Frets. Used, Partial Refret. Low Action.
Presently has a Calf-Skin Head, but other options are available.
New TKL Arched-Lid Hard Shell Case.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1924
Notes:
A prime Vega Whyte Laydie, originally a plectrum and now a fine 5-string
using most of the original neck.
Great technique by Master Banjo Maker, Dick Powell.
Maple neck, 27" scale, 10 15/16" head size.
A great [almost] all-original Vega 5-String banjo.
Not a lot of these around.
New Hard Case.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1929
Notes:
From a Style S Tubaphone Banjo-Mandolin.
Tubaphone #9 20-fret 5-String neck with Chubby Dragon by Steve Sutherland.
10 1/8" Rim with 24 1/2" Scale Length.
Planetary Geared Pegs.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1921
Notes:
A clean and original 11 13/16" Vega #9 Tubaphone pot with
a terrific and accurate reproduction 5-String neck by the noted Wyatt Fawley,
a tour de force with extra-curly-maple, beautiful hand-carved heel and
exceptionally fine engraved pearl-work.
26" Scale Length.
Old Gold Planet Pegs with Mother of Pearl knobs.
Spin-Off Pie-Section Back.
Virtually un-Played Condition.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1914
Notes:
Vega Tubaphone with 10 1/8" rim and reproduction 5-String neck by Doug Unger with
Exquisite Engraved Mother-of-Pearl inlays by one of the greatest.
25 1/2" Scale Length.
S-M 5-Star Planetary Tuners.
Custom Scalloped Tension-Hoop.carved Frailing Scoop.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1930
Notes:
From the Magic Workshop of Dick Powell.
Vega Tubaphone #3, formerly a plectrum banjo:
The original neck transformed into a 5-String.
10 15/16" Tubaphone Rim.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1924
Notes:
Tubaphone Plectrum #3 Converted to 5-String,
Retaining Original Heel Carving.
Conversion and Flowerpot Peg-Head Inlays by Steve Sutherland.
Original Tubaphone Pot with Replaced Nuts.
Banjo has been fitted with a narrow-spacing bridge to accomodate the slightly narrow
fingerboard profile.
10 15/16" Rim with 26 1/4" Scale Length.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1921
Notes:
An Excellent and Little-Played Early 1920's
Fairbanks by the Vega Co. #9 Tubaphone.
10 15/16" Rim with 27" Scale.
All Original except for Old Neck Refinish.
Skin Head.
Pretty Much AS-FOUND with friction tuners with Mother-of-Pearl Knobs.
Might benefit from an appropriate set of Geared Pegs.
Fine Player.
Modern Hard Case.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1925
Notes:
Large-Size 11 13/16" Whyte Laydie #2 pot with
terrific reproduction #7 grade 5-String Neck by Steve Sutherland.
24 3/4" Scale Length.
21 Frets and Skin Head.
Maker: Washburn
Year: 1897
Notes:
A Nearly Pristine Washburn from Lyon & Healy Co. in Chicago, 1890's.
Ebony Fingerboard with Delicately Engraved Shell Inlays.
Celluloid Friction Pegs.
Original Skin Head.
All-Original and Largely Un-Played One-Owner Instrument.
10 1/2" Rim with 26" Scale Length.
Presently Strung with Light Gauge Steel Strings.
Maker: Washburn
Year: 1985
Notes:
An All-Original Washburn Banjo from the Mid-1890's.
A High-End Model with a Particularly Heavy Rim with all the Best Bespoke Washburn Hardware.
Mahogany neck with Ebony Fingerboard, Finely Hand-Engraved Shell Inlays
and Great Heel-Carving.
11" Rim with 25 3/4" Scale.
Maker: Washburn
Year: ca. 1910
Notes:
An All-Original Lyon & Healy Washburn Banjo
with a full complement of 22 frets and 26 1/4" Scale
allied with 1890's Style and Taste.
10 1/2" Rim, Mahogany neck.
Pretty Cool.
