L-00 guitar

L-00 guitar

I’ve been lax about updating my site here, but rest assured, I’m still working on instruments! This little mahogany L-00 was strung up in October, just …

 

New Tubaphone for sale

New Tubaphone for sale

Clifftop 2010 was an amazing experience, as always. The mountains of West Virginia are so beautiful, and there’s nothing that compares to spending a week …

 

Guitar in progress!

Guitar in progress!

For the last couple of months I’ve been working on a little L-00 style guitar – kind of like a Gibson or Kalamazoo from the …

 

11″ Black Walnut “Tubaphone” 5-string

11″ Black Walnut “Tubaphone” 5-string

Here’s a black walnut Tubaphone banjo I finished last summer. It has antiqued brass hardware (which I think goes nicely with the colour of the …

 

A couple o’ banjos for sale

A couple o’ banjos for sale

A couple of the banjos I’ve posted pictures of here are both for sale at the 12th Fret, a great store for stringed instruments here …

 

11″ Maple Tubaphone

11″ Maple Tubaphone

Here’s a curly maple banjo that I recently finished. It’s got an 11″ pot, Tubaphone tone ring,  ebony fretboard and black-red-black details. The inlay is …

 

Fretless “Little Wonder” 5-string

Fretless “Little Wonder” 5-string

Here’s a photo, taken by Dave Wren of Wren Guitar Works, of a little short-scale fretless banjo I made. It’s all maple, with a slightly …