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[WillPick4Beer]

i hope this pic comes thru
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/422banjolin2.JPG

[WillPick4Beer]

oh and here's me
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/422VW_Van_004.jpg

[WillPick4Beer]

and my tenor.
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/422tenor.JPG

[newblue]

OK here goes...
#1 Gross
#2 Cool
#3 ?

[WillPick4Beer]

i dont care for the artwork either, but hey, beggers cant be choosers. for 80 years old the actions grat and it never goes out of tune.

[violmando]

Like all 3----COOL! BTW, I live in Yellow Springs, OH--we love those VW's! I just started playing tenor 'jo to reinforce my chording on mandocello--it's addicting!

[grandmainger]

Is it just me, or is the entire fingerboard of the ban)o covered in Mother of Pearl?

[Darryl Wolfe]

How come I can't see the pics and others can??

[mandopete]

Darryl...you may want to reconsider.

http://www.mandolincafe.net/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif

[Darryl Wolfe]

ah ha....
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[WillPick4Beer]

Like all 3----COOL! BTW, I live in Yellow Springs, OH--we love those VW's! I just started playing tenor 'jo to reinforce my chording on mandocello--it's addicting!
thats funny dude. the banjo was given to me near yellow springs. i sold that bus a couple years back cus i blew it up again and was too hungry and disheartened and poor to build another motor. so i been hitchhikin since. so i was hitchin out of tenneseeheaded to yellowsprings actually to stay with a friend who was headed where i was headed. on the way i got picked up by this cat who noticed the banjolin. he told me about his banjo, so we went to his place to look at it. well he also had a '72 Toyota landcruiser that he was about to put on ebay, but ever since he took it to a mechanic it wouldnt run no more. he said running he could sell it for 5000 but now he was tryin to sel it for 2000. told me if i could fix the truck, he'd give me the banjo. i shouldnt have let him watch me fix the truck, cus it took 5 minutes for it to purr like a kitten and he almost didnt give me the banjo!!

and yes it is all mother of pearl. its a 1918 orchestrella made by gretsch. ivory tuners and nut. you know with those tuners, that tone ring, and all that mother of pearl, that thing would be a dream come true for a banjo builder. if any of yall can sell it for me for over 1000bux ill give ya 100. under 1000bux ill give ya 50.

[Scotti Adams]

Hey Violmando...I live right down the road from you...in Bowersville...thats just south of Jamestown...small world.

[grandmainger]

I'm really intrigued at that MOP fingerboard. Does it not get damaged when fretting? Any chance of a close-up photo?

[WillPick4Beer]

I'm really intrigued at that MOP fingerboard. Does it not get damaged when fretting? Any chance of a close-up photo?
if you look close you can see some stress fractures in the mother of pearl. best way to get a close up is to download to pic to your paint program, and zoom in, its a pretty still shot so itll still be detailed up close. also keep in mind a tenor banjo is a slower instrument, your not really hammering on it like you would a mando, or electric guitar, its more of a finnesse instrument. lemme check to see if i have a close up.

[WillPick4Beer]

http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/422tenorheadstock.JPG
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/422tenortuners.JPG
http://www.hipgallery.com/photopost2/data/500/422tenorback.JPG

all i got kids

[Paul Weber]

I believe your tenor banjo fingerboard & peghead are pearloid or MOTS(mother-of-toilet seat) not MOP(mother-of-pearl).

Paul

[WillPick4Beer]

I believe your tenor banjo fingerboard & peghead are pearloid or MOTS(mother-of-toilet seat) not MOP(mother-of-pearl).

#Paul
interesting that in 1918 they would use an ivory nut and tuners and toilet seat. i always thought better of gretsch but ive been known to be wrong before. by the way, when was pearloid invented?

[OdnamNool]

#1 Whad, ya take that banjo to the carnival and put it on the "spin-art" twirleymajig?

#2 Banjo-hunk candidate

#3 Looks like a banjo-tambourine combination!

All very cool!

[WillPick4Beer]

i am by no means an artist . . .
that being said, no, i also did not do the "artwork"
it seems to me that the original artwork on it was like when you were in pre-school, and your teacher had you drop ink an a piece of paper and blow on it with a straw. then when it fell into hippie hands it looks like a yin-yang was added with a sharpe. then it fell into my hands. i can never get the nice stuff. even that bus i had to learn how to welde, do body work, build motors and axels, and rewire, reseal . . .etc. i think the only thing i didnt rebuild on that thing was the . . .uh . . . no i did that too. oh well a lil slice of my world.

[OdnamNool]

Hey! I think your banjo's are way cool... I hope that you did not wrongly interpret my post (above.)