Used 5-String Open-Back Banjos
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.
Fitted with Original Grover Geared Pegs
Fine Player.
Modern Hard Case.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1918
Notes:
A mostly original Vega Tubaphone #9 5-String Banjo.
Stamped: Fairbanks Banjo by the Vega Co.
[Surprisingly, there is no Style # 9 stamp]
10 15/16" Tubaphone rim, Fingerboard Scale length is 27".
Gold-Plated Grover friction pegs with M-O-P buttons.
Kerschner Tailpiece.
This banjo has been well-played and some time in the past
received a re-fret; probably at the same time the fingerboard
binding was replaced with white binding. The heel-cap inlay may be
a replacement.
The rim is pretty much original with the metal parts retaining much of the
original nickel sheen.
Like-New TKL Hard Case
Maker: Vega
Year: 1924
Notes:
An original Vega Tubaphone pot [#62252, 1924] with a fine reproduction 5-String neck by Intermountain Guitar and Banjo
[I G & B Serial # 1005, 2015]
11 13/16" head. Maple neck with ebony fingerboard. 26" Scale Length.
Straight Neck, Low Action.
Plenty of Power with an accessible Scale Length.
Original Peghead Facing from Original Tenor Neck.
Virtually No Playing Wear.
Nice Arched-Lid TKL Hard Case.
Maker: Vega
Year: 1914
Notes:
An interesting and plain version of Vega's famous Whyte Laydie #2 banjo.
Stamped "Fairbanks Banjo by The Vega Co".
All original banjo except for the older set of planetary geared pegs.
Good neck, a little playing wear in the first position, with the odd ding and scratch
typical of a well-treated but well-played 110 year-old instrument.
Hard Case.
I love playing this banjo!
