Martin Vega Banjo

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 from 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

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