5-string Openback banjo no. 10
This banjo is the prototype for a custom-built banjo particularly suited to clawhammer.
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This banjo is the prototype for a custom-built banjo particularly suited to clawhammer.
Banjo no. 17-19 NX
Banjo no. 18-19 NX is a short-necked A-scale banjo, also called a travel banjo or melody banjo.
Banjo built from older mahogany (reclaimed wood).
11-inch beech block rim with mahogany inlay.
This banjo began as an experiment. It is built from spruce/pine. Can you build a banjo from spruce/pine at all? Will it play? Will it hold up? Spruce is used…
The banjo is made from paulownia wood. Perhaps it is the only banjo in the world made from paulownia (empress tree)?
Built from mahogany. Banjos made from solid mahogany can be hard to find.
11-inch mahogany block rim
11-inch oak block rim
11-inch block rim in seasoned reclaimed oak with an ash ring.
5-string A-scale Openback Banjo.
This open-back banjo is built from oak and ash. Oak has, interestingly, proved to have excellent tonal qualities. It is therefore surprising that oak is not more…
Built from solid mahogany
Block rim and neck in Danish oak with mahogany.
Longneck banjo no. 15 LNX 19 (LNX means long neck with extra reinforcement from two carbon fibre truss rods; 19 means 2019).
Handmade beech neck with a mahogany core.
Handmade beech neck
This banjo is in Irish tuning (gdae). Changing the strings makes it easy to tune it as a standard tenor banjo (cgda).
Custom plectrum banjo. Suitable for jazz, among other styles.
11-inch block rim in solid European oak
Mora harpa built by eye from old photographs. The instrument is made from spruce from an old bedroom wardrobe.
If you are buying an inexpensive violin bow, a low-cost fibre bow can be a good choice.