Banjo #269, “Eden”
Eden…a beautiful name for a beautiful banjo with a beautiful voice! I had a very good time building this banjo, the woods…Oregon Big Leaf Maple, Bilinga and Wenge are among my favorites and simply go together well, the sound is fantastic, it is destined to be a true heirloom.
Spec Of Banjo Below
- Diameter: 12 inch
- Tone ring: Wenge
- Hardware: Docs aged brass for the tension hoop, 16 fine threaded hooks, nuts
- Tailpiece: Docs Aged Brass, built into the tension hoop…no “rattling”
- Bridge: Docs “Cathedral Bridge”
- Head: Custom Dyed skin
- Laminates: 8 horizontal and 6 vertical laminates for the “Chambertone” tone ring
- Scale Length 25 ½ inch
- Fretboard: Wenge…scalloped and 10:16 radius
- Laminates: 7 horizontal, 5 vertical
- Tuners: Gotoh X-gold
- Nut: Bone
- Strings: Nylgut “Minstrel”
- string height above the nut 0.040
- string height above 12th fret: 0.125
- Peghed design: “Minstrel”
- Weight: 6.4 pounds
- Other: “Docs Frailing Platform”…the landing zone at the pot: neck junction…and a signature “dot” just forward of the 5th string, made of ebony.
