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About 15-20 years ago... I was playing around with an old no-name 4 string tenor banjo. I decided that I wanted to try to play a 5 string banjo so I made my first 5 string neck. It was then that I discovered that I didn’t know any old time tunes that were typically played on the 5 string banjo. I then backtracked and built a second neck (this time a 4 string plectrum neck) for this no-name banjo. This is when I discovered that I enjoyed making banjos even more than I enjoyed playing them (maybe it has something to do with the fact that I found out that I was more successful making them than I was learning how to play them). I ventured into building 4 string and 5 string reproduction necks for some Vega, Bacon & Day, Bacon and Orpheum vintage pots that I began picking up from music stores and on Ebay. I was hooked! Then I realized that I had way too many banjos and that I needed to sell some of these banjos to support my ever growing obsession of building more banjo necks. While there is a market for the vintage banjos with reproduction 5 string necks, I soon realized that there was a much bigger market for a good playing, sounding open back banjo in the lower price ranges. |
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Eventually it led to my building an open back banjo Woodworking and fly fishing have been my hobbies of choice for many years. After I retired, banjo building started to consume more and more of my spare time. In addition to building my own style of open back and other vintage reproduction necks, a few years ago, I started building necks for Tom Nechville’s line of banjos (www.nechville.com). Some 800 plus necks and banjos later, I'm still having fun building them. |
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