Washburn Style C short scale tenor banjo

Written by Paul Conlon. Posted in For Sale


Washburn Style C Banjo from the 1920’s made by Lyon & Healy from Chicago. All original and in excellent condition. Although this model was sold as an openback banjo, I have fitted a walnut handmade curved bottom, matching resonator which adds a little volume and resonance.

-10 3/4 inch rim fitted with a Remo renaissance head
– Maple wood rim with walnut finish and tortoise shell binding and bottom cap.
-Washburn unique donut style tone ring.
-All original pot with the Washburn style stretcher band with 22 brackets, hooks mount into stretcher band center.
-Maple 2 piece neck finished in walnut with centre ebony strip.
-New quality geared tuners fitted.
-Overall length 30 inches
-Fingerboard length 13 3/8 inches with 17 frets
-Stained pear wood fingerboard with mother of pearl dots.
-Ebony heel cap with a mother of pearl inlay.
-Straight pegs with new buttons.
-Kershner tailpiece stamped “KERSHNER UNIQUE / LYON & HEALY / MAKERS / CHICAGO U.S.A.”
-19-3/4″ scale length, 1-7/32″ nut width
-The neck is straight and playing action is very comfortable with good frets.
-comes with a quality hard shell case.

For Sale £750

Martin Vega Banjo

Written by Paul Conlon. Posted in For Sale

A little history of Vega | Martin tenor banjos

When C. F. Martin Co. bought the Vega banjo line in May of 1970, hundreds of parts were inherited vega_02vega_10from the Needham Heights factory near Boston. For several years, the Vega Martin banjo was an amalgam of parts from Massachusetts and Nazareth, PA. Old 6 digit Vega serial numbers persisted on a yellow sticker on the inner pot until production was moved to Pennsylvania in 1972.

Thereafter, C. F. Martin installed a serial number decal on the inner rim beginning with #2  and on through #1945.  Note the unique cluster of 3 sound apertures spaced around the  tone ring of the below VIP-5 model owned by the BRC founder (SN 1364). The company was sold to Galaxy Trading Co. in March 1979.

 

Features:

  • Maple neck with sunburnt finish
  • 19 fret ebony fretboard with mop dot position markers and ivory plastic bond fret board sides
  • original Elton “pancake” tuners
  • Vega logo mop
  • 1/2″ maple triple ply rim surrounded by nickel plated flange similar to Vega Vox design.
  • 5/8″ nickel plated tension hoop
  • Resonator in sunburnt finish
  • Comes with quality hard shell case

SOLD

 

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