Used 5-String Open-Back Banjos
Maker: Vega
Year: 1921
Notes:
Nice original Vega Regent 5-String with Little Wonder tone-ring.
10 3/4" Head size, 26" Scale Length.
A serious players' instrument that is not super-heavy.
Some appropriate engraved-pearl inlays have been added.
Modern Planetary geared tuners.
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: 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: 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, Geo.
Year: 1897
Notes:
Top Washburn model in 1897.
All the unique and special Washburn hardware, tailpiece and tuners are present.
Cuban Mahogany neck with Ebony Fingerboard and engraved shell inlays.
Strikingly Carved Heel.
Neck is straight, modest playing wear.
Original tuners aren't great, but they are functional.
New calf-skin head.
Strung with Aquila Strings.
Maker: Wildwood
Year: 2006
Notes:
A Pristine Wildwood Troubadour
with Tubaphone Tone-Ring.
Figured Maple Neck with Ebony Fingerboard and Shell Inlays.
Original Tweed TKL Hard Case.
