Used 5-String Open-Back Banjos

Index: 10580
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.

Serial: #49163
Condition: Excellent
Case: hsc
Price: $1695.00
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Index: 10607
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. 

Serial: 56262
Condition: Excellent
Case: hsc
Price: $1995.00
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Index: 10557
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.

Serial: #86518
Condition: Excellent
Case: gig bag
Price: $2995.00
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Index: 10504
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.

Serial: #40804
Condition: EX-FINE
Case: hsc
Price: $5600.00
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Index: 10583
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.

Serial: #30366
Condition: Excellent
Case: hsc
Price: $3495.00
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Index: 10329
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.

 

 

 

Serial: #89034
Condition: Excellent
Case: hsc
Price: $$1700.
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Index: 10571
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.

 

Serial: #58330
Condition: Excellent
Case: gig bag
Price: $2200.00
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Index: 10444
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.

 

Serial: #40926
Condition: Excellent
Case: hsc
Price: $Reduced to $4500.00
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Index: 10558
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.

Serial: #66116
Condition: Excellent
Case: hsc
Price: $3295.00
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Index: 10562
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.

Serial: #3200
Condition: Ex-Fine and Original
Case: gig bag
Price: $995.00
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Index: 10570
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.

 

 

 

Serial: #3687
Condition: Excellent
Case: gig bag
Price: $1050.00
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Index: 10565
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.

Serial: None
Condition: Excellent
Case: gig bag
Price: $800.00
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