Rich O’Brien , musician and producer, is the man who inspired our Badger. (His nickname among musicians is “The Badger”. ) We spent some time with him last Friday, while he tested the performance of three different guitar-banjo configurations. He made them all sound wonderful, but he wants his personal […]
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This photo shows the Banjo shop in the very beginning stages of renovation. To start building banjos, Chuck needed a place to put all the tools. So out goes the plumbing storage area and in goes the climate and humidity controlled weather tight building. Along with a bunch of tools, […]
Mary Z. Cox is such a delightful banjo player and customer. Chuck enjoyed making this special inlay for her, in which the girl in the moon (you might recognize Mary!) sports pink shortalls. Mary’s beloved basset hound sits in the clouds below the moon.Mary told us recently, “I love my […]
This photo of Chuck and Bonnie playing banjo is about ten years old. This article is the beginning of a series on how we got “here” from “there”. “Here” being herein described as “actually believing we can make a living building banjos” as opposed to “there”, in which we ran […]
Craig Evans of Singleton Street owns three Chuck Lee Banjos –all Marble Falls Tubaphone models. Recently he sent us his CD “Wingin’ It, by Singleton Street, which he recorded using our banjo. The first time Chuck and I popped it in our player, we were traveling to Fort Worth. Together […]
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 […]
This Prairieville is on its way to Wayne Shrubsall. Wayne is a favorite of ours, a kind and helpful person and a fantastic banjo player. We think of him as a true ” gentleman and scholar”. His Prairieville Vintage 12″ is all walnut, with the standard brass hoop tone ring. […]