Finished up Sam's Ash minstrel this week, lovely deep tone!
12" Ash 1-ply rim
Goat head
Ash neck 
Walnut fingerboard, 27" scale length, Maple flush frets
Gotoh tuners
Inlaid brass star in peghead
Nylon strings
Maple bridge


It was great to meet Davy last week, when he travelled down from Scotland to collect his Cherry open-back. It was a really nice surprise when I logged into my website this afternoon to find the lovely comments he wrote!

Back on with David's 6-string, Matt's mountain banjo and David's open-back next week.

Just a little reminder that I'll be updating my prices next weekend, so if you would like to commission a banjo at the current prices let me know this week. Wait time is around 10 months, so Jan/Feb 2020.

We finally finished my son's banjo...turned out pretty cool!

Ash pot and neck, 23.5" scale Rosewood fingerboard and peghead overlay, mother of pearl 'zombie' head, 8" Renaissance head.

Had quite a productive week, Sam's minstrel should be ready for oiling sometime next week, just need to carve the neck, sand and stain.
David's Walnut banjo is coming along nicely, rim is glued up (just needs an Ebony cap), neck is also glued up.
Glued up David's (different David!) Cherry rim, hopefully get the neck blank glued up next week.
Also hoping to start gluing bits for Matt's Cherry mountain banjo.

The last two banjos of the current batch finished this week....phew!
I have a mixed bag to get on with next, back on to Sam's minstrel, a 7-string flush fret, a mountain banjo, a fairly standard open back and a 6 string open back. Should keep me out of trouble!

Tom's Banjo:
12" Walnut block rim
​Ebony rim cap
Dobson tone ring
Renaissance head
Walnut neck
25.5" scale
​GHS Americana medium strings

Stock banjo. This will be for sale shortly, full specs will and price will be on the 'banjos in stock' page.  Unfortunately it will be Europe shipping only, due to the Rosewood tone ring.

12" Flamed Maple rim
​Ebony rim cap
Rosewood integral tone ring
Renaissance head
Flamed Maple neck
25.5" scale Ebony fingerboard
Slotted peghead with Waverly tuners w/Ebony buttons

Been finishing up Davy's Cherry banjo and Andrew's 'Kibbo Kift' Walnut banjo this week, both banjos have an awesome sound but I still have a day or 2 of tinkering to coax the best possible tone out of them. The audio files don't really do them justice, I was struggling to play with a finger pick after sanding half my claw nail off a week or so ago!!
​Some really nice personal touches on both banjos, I'm really chuffed with how the hiker turned out on Andrew's banjo and the Cherry blossom on Davy's.
​Check out Andrew's great band www.hatstandmedicineband.com/ 

Should have Tom's 'Dobson' banjo complete next week, along with the stock Maple banjo, so keep an eye out for those :)

12" Cherry block rim
Integral Rosewood tone ring
Fibreskyn head
Cherry neck
Ebony 25.5" scale fingerboard
​GHS Americana medium strings

12" Black Walnut block rim
​Brass round rod/Dobson combo tone ring
Goat skin head
Black Walnut neck
Ebony 25.5" scale fingerboard
​GHS Americana medium strings