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11" American Black Walnut rim
Ebony rim cap Brass rod tone ring Renaissance head American Black Walnut neck (carbon fibre reinforced) Solid peghead with Ebony overlay 25.5" scale Ebony fingerboard 17 frets Arc shape frailing scoop Abalone position markers Brass side dots 'Hawktail' tailpiece Raw brass 18 hooks and shoes Raw brass notched tension hoop Gotoh planetary peghead tuners w/5-Star 5th tuner Bone nut and pip 35mm wide nut GHS Americana medium gauge strings Highlighted specs are added/bonus 'extras', not usually included in the base price! |
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11" Brazilian Mahogany rim
Ebony rim cap Renaissance head Brazilian Mahogany 1-piece neck (carbon fibre reinforced) Solid peghead with Ebony overlay and inlaid Mop star 23.25" scale Ebony fingerboard 17 frets Arc shape frailing scoop Mop position markers Brass side dots 'Hawktail' tailpiece Raw brass 18 hooks and shoes Raw brass notched tension hoop Gotoh tuners Bone nut and pip 35mm wide nut GHS Americana light gauge strings Highlighted specs are added/bonus 'extras', not usually included in the base price! |
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Stolen Banjo #188
Stamped '2023 188' on top of dowel stick.
UPDATE:
UPS managed to lose banjo #188 in October 2023, whilst delivering to a customer within the UK. Following a ‘google’ search earlier this year, I found that it had been sold by John Pye auction house in February. A police investigation discovered who sold the banjo at auction and who the buyer was, but, due to 'data protection' they won’t provide me with the information, and there is nothing else they can do. I guess catching speeding motorists is a higher priority!
UPS eventually compensated me for some of my financial loss, however I am still well over a £1000 out of pocket, and my customer, who has been extremely helpful, is having to wait for me to make a replacement banjo, after already waiting nearly a year.
As far as I’m concerned, the banjo is stolen property, UPS failed to deliver it to who I paid them to deliver to, and I didn’t give permission for it to be sold at auction. Someone must have ripped off all documentation from the box it was packed in, and removed all documents inside, which certainly points towards theft.
The banjo sold at auction for £155, the buyer got an absolute bargain, as it was worth over £2000. It was armed with Rickard ‘cyclone’ tuners and a Dobson tone ring, made with some lovely American Black Walnut, and trimmed with some nice inlay. The police did inform me that, after speaking with the buyer, ‘they were thrilled with the banjo and will cherish it’. That’s great, but the decent thing for the buyer to have done, would have been to let me reimburse them what they paid and to have given me the banjo back. Sadly, there are very few decent people in this world!
Anyway, I curse banjo #188, and pray that it brings misery, pain and strife to whoever touches it.
UPDATE:
UPS managed to lose banjo #188 in October 2023, whilst delivering to a customer within the UK. Following a ‘google’ search earlier this year, I found that it had been sold by John Pye auction house in February. A police investigation discovered who sold the banjo at auction and who the buyer was, but, due to 'data protection' they won’t provide me with the information, and there is nothing else they can do. I guess catching speeding motorists is a higher priority!
UPS eventually compensated me for some of my financial loss, however I am still well over a £1000 out of pocket, and my customer, who has been extremely helpful, is having to wait for me to make a replacement banjo, after already waiting nearly a year.
As far as I’m concerned, the banjo is stolen property, UPS failed to deliver it to who I paid them to deliver to, and I didn’t give permission for it to be sold at auction. Someone must have ripped off all documentation from the box it was packed in, and removed all documents inside, which certainly points towards theft.
The banjo sold at auction for £155, the buyer got an absolute bargain, as it was worth over £2000. It was armed with Rickard ‘cyclone’ tuners and a Dobson tone ring, made with some lovely American Black Walnut, and trimmed with some nice inlay. The police did inform me that, after speaking with the buyer, ‘they were thrilled with the banjo and will cherish it’. That’s great, but the decent thing for the buyer to have done, would have been to let me reimburse them what they paid and to have given me the banjo back. Sadly, there are very few decent people in this world!
Anyway, I curse banjo #188, and pray that it brings misery, pain and strife to whoever touches it.
