These are instruments in progress or recently completed

Andrew Dean's Custom Festival Favorite

Rebeccca was showing her twins around in Alabama, and an impressed Andrew Dean made the trek to Memphis to meet with Christian and commission his own custom Festival Favorite model!  This 25.5" scale, 12" rim beauty is going to be fashioned out of premium curly maple with an ebony fingerboard and wenge trim.  We are inlaying a lone Texas star in the peghead and Hawaiian palm trees in the frailing scoop to pay tribute to Andrew's heritage.  The photos below will show the work in progress over the next few months...

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Rebecca's Triplets

Two of the three banjos have been delivered now!  The photos below show Rebecca and her banjos against the beautiful Tennessee River near Savannah, Tennessee.  The a-scale banjo and banjo ukulele were hand crafted from cherry and maple wood, and feature custom cut heron inlays in the pegheads and ginko leaf motifs on the fingerboards and frailing sccop.  Tuners are geared ebony "Pegheads" for that old time look and feel.  The a-scale banjo sports eye-catching spalted maple for the rim bottom cap, whereae the uke features burled cherry.  We have one more of these to go to complete the trio, Rebecca's custom Festival Favorite model with the 25.5" scale neck and 12" pot.

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Uke News...

The latest thing to fuel the banjo ukulele craze has arrived - deco ukes that throwback to the jazz age, complete with lots of faux pearl!  Check out the deco models in progress, and be the first on your block to own one of these beauties.  We are taking orders for these now, go to the contact page to send us a message and reserve yours today.

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Vera's "Golden Girl"

Christian recently finished Vera's "Golden Girl" open back banjo, which features a 25.5" scale curly maple neck on a 12" maple rim.  All of the hardware is gold plated, including the 12" Bill Rickard brass gooved tension hoop.  The gold tuners with amber buttons are made by Gotoh and purchased from Bob Smakula in West Virginia.

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July 2011 Maple/Walnut Banjo Uke

Christian just finished his eleventh instrument, a gorgeous little natural blonde maple uke with an ebony fingerboard and walnut trim.  Don't look too longingly - this baby has already been snapped up!  This is Christian's first sale apart from comissioned pieces...

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Irish Tenor Banjo

This was a custom order for Tommy & Christian that came from a West Virginia native.  The banjo features a 17-fret neck and a white lady tone ring.  The neck and rim are both curly maple.  This order was delivered to Hanna Thurman in West Virginia in November 2010, as a gift to her mother.

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Minstrel Banjo

Minstrel Banjo

This is the first of the George minstrel banjos.  This prototype was based loosely on a Boucher banjo featured in the Jim Bollman "America's Instument" banjo book.  It features a maple neck and rim and bodhran hardware, all of which have been "distressed" to make it look old as the hills.