Used 5-String Resonator Banjos
Maker: Bacon & Day
Year: 1924
Notes:
An original B & D five-string banjo attached to a later period B & D banjo rim.
Modern replacement flange. Some restoration, very professional, one possibly detects the hand of Renee.
Slight forward bow to the neck. Plays great.
Rim Serial # 32860
Maker: Bishline
Year: ca. 2012
Notes:
All-maple rim, no metal tone-ring.
Walnut neck and resonator.
Maker: Deering
Year: 2004
Notes:
An Older version of this Popular Deering Model.
Flat-head Tone-Ring, 1-piece Flange.
AS-NEW and Un-Played with Hang-Tags.
Maker: Deering
Year: 1994
Notes:
A Deering Custom Maple Blossom Banjo.
Gold-Plated hardware, some of which has faded and worn.
Note the Binding around the peg-head.
Tony Pass Lost Timbre wood rim.
Price Tailpiece.
Some playing wear.
Maker: Deering
Year: 2007
Notes:
AS-NEW and Un-Played.
This banjo has been in a closet for well over 10 years.
Maker: Framus
Year: ca. 1970
Notes:
A good banjo. narrow spacing, goofy German design.
Chipboard case.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1984
Notes:
First Year Earl Scruggs Model. Label signed by Earl.
Excellent and original with an unexplained patch of seared lacquer at the top of the back of the peg-head.
Modest playing wear.
D-tuners on 2nd and 3rd pegs.
Includes the 8-page booklet from Gibson that came with the early Scruggs Model.
Original Gibson hard case.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1998
Notes:
A nice, clean Earl Scruggs Model,
with Scruggs/Keith pegs.
a few dings on resonator, a little finish wear on back of neck in first position.
Truss-rod cover and tailpiece are replacements, as is the Hard Case.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1930's
Notes:
Well-played example of Kalamazoo's resonator 5-string banjo.
Straight neck, good action, with some playing wear.
Original 2-tab Grover geared pegs and original Grover 'window-frame' tailpiece with cover.
A suitable hard case will be provided.
Maker: Gibson
Year: Ca. 1937
Notes:
A well-played and all-original Gibson RB-00 Five-String Banjo.
Some playing wear, straight neck, low action.
The fingerboard has been nicely refretted.
Comes with a Jim Mills Certificate of Authenticity.
Modern Deluxe Hard Case.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1936
Notes:
10 1/2" rim and resonator from an MB-1
Mando-banjo. Five-String 24 3/4" scale-length neck by I.G.& B.
Brass-hoop tone-ring.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1951
Notes:
An all-original one-owner RB-100 with a little modest playing-wear.
Tough to imagine a nicer one.
Gibson Hard Case from around 1970.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1988
Notes:
Standard Gibson RB-250 Mastertone Model.
Flat-head tone-ring by Kulesh.
Minor playing wear and some nickel-plating discoloration.
A nice banjo from the early part of modern Gibson's best period.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1980
Notes:
Rim replaced with 3-Ply Maple Rim.
Keith Pegs.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1929
Notes:
All-original 1928 TB-3 40-hole arch-top Mastertone pot with a very nice reproduction 5-string neck in the appropriate style.
A banjo recently unearthed in an Estate Sale, there is no information as to the maker of the neck, which shows some minor playing wear.
The pot itself is absolutely original down to the last resonator-bracket screw and is in excellent and un-messed-with condition.
Original Grover geared pegs, Grover Presto Tailpiece [modified for 5-strings], and Grover armrest.
Resonator has a patch of nasty-looking, but not that serious belt-buckle fever on the back.
A beat-up but still functional '50's Gibson Hard Case is included.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1925
Notes:
First Year Ball-Bearing Arch-Top Mastertone.
Shot-Gun Holes.
Professional Reproduction 5-String Neck.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1999
Notes:
A fine example of the hard-to-find Gibson RB-3 Wreathe.
A few dings and minor marks in the finish, but largely un-played.
Gibson 20-hole Flat-Head Tone-Ring.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1965
Notes:
Possible replacement 3-ply Maple rim.
All-Original Hardware, Some Gold-Plating has Faded.
Maker: Gibson
Year: 1979
Notes:
One of less than 200 Deluxe Mastertones made after 1970. Gold-plated and engraved hardware.
Well-played, worn plating, worn frets, resonator binding has cracks, but appears to be stable.
Offered on an AS-IS basis.
Minor conumdrum: Serial # suggests 1975, the book says 1979.
Maker: Gold Star
Year: 1984
Notes:
Gold Star J.D.Crowe.
Granada Styling.
Almost Un-Played.
