This delightful lady arrived at our doorstep a few months ago, desiring a left-handed banjo. Sharon Mullins is a Texan who frequents Old-time and music festivals, and she wanted a new banjo. They’re a little tricky to build when you’re working “backwards”. As a luthier, you have to resist your […]
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Here is my Tenor, the prototype, up close and personal. It has the Chautauqua peghead shape and Vintage inlay, but not our Vintage tuners (peghed brand), instead it has Waverly planetary tuners, with ivoroid buttons. The fret wire is the smaller vintage banjo/mandolin style wire. Neck and pot are walnut, […]
Lee Thomas, shown above with Chuck, came over last week to help us out for a magazine photo shoot. While he was here, he tried out the prototype of our new Cottonwood Model! This one is a Vintage, and like all future Cottonwoods, has a Dobson tone ring. For this […]
Well, if we’re not blogging, at least we’ve been building! This week we finished several orders, including a left-handed custom, the new Cottonwood, and my new Tenor! Watch for blogs of all of these during the next week. Here is my new Tenor, which I have been pestering Chuck to […]
Chuck spent a lot of yesterday fretting. (no, not worrying…putting in the frets!) We are working on a group of banjos which will hit their boxes for shipping very soon! We’ve spent a lot of time, months really, working with these pieces of wood from block to completed banjo. It’s […]
This is Charlie, our Newfoundland. We are adopting him from Brenda Matheny of Brenrich Newfoundlands. (Shown above with Chuck). Isn’t he beautiful? He is 120 pounds of slobbery love and his parents were both from fine bloodlines! He has seen hard days (neglect/life-worn) and needed a gentle home.
…..But Chuck did help our Scouts build two nice rockets (plus a third for a friend) and one knock-out derby car.
Well, here’s his picture , so let the bragging begin! Fiddle, mandolin, guitar, Chuck Lee Banjo, and more. Nate is such a natural with a musical instrument. Since he was 11 years old, he has worked hard and become a wonderful player. Currently, he plays with two bands, The Alan […]
This Badger, with wooden tone ring and all cherry wood, is for Johnny’s Guitar teacher, nicknamed “Zoo”. Patrick DeZeeuw surprised me at Johnny’s first lesson–he told Johnny that a good student should never practice guitar! After the shock wore off, he continued to say, “practice is dull, we don’t practice […]