SOLD Newly Completed, Handmade, Hand-Carved McLeod Banjo £950 plus postage.

This banjo has now been sold , for information on new models please contact me .

Hi ya , this is a very interesting little banjo. It was intended to be the start of a new model line but I got a bit carried away with it 🙂 .
This is a wooden top banjo , 11 inch pot. The pot is block construction . It’s made out of Australian she oak with cocobolo for the tone ring and the rim cap . It’s very striking and projects well for a woody.

The neck is sycamore , with a beautiful flame in it. If your not familiar with sycamore it’s a very close relative to maple . So close, in fact , I believe in the states they generally just label it as maple. It’s traditionally used for the back of fiddles.
Fingerboard is a lovely piece of AAA quality ebony , with a satin wood strip underneath.
Peghead is back strapped with ebony , front veneer is also ebony and is inlayed with mop ‘ man in the moon ‘ .
At the other end of the neck there’s a carved heel , ebony heel cap and a Birdseye maple dowel stick.
The banjo is fitted with a stained goat skin vellum that’s very stable.
This banjo comes with a slightly tatty but very useable hard case to protect it during postage .
This really is a very pretty little banjo that punches way above its weight . I’ve listed some other spec below . Please excuse photos , I couldn’t switch the flash off ! 🙂

• 26. 3/16″ Scale length
• All hardware is nickel plate
• 24 hooks and brackets
• Notched tension hoop
• Vega style neck brace
• No knot tailpiece
• Mop position dots , mop star at fifth fret
• S style frailing scoop
• Bone top nut , bone fifth nut
• Carbon fibre neck reinforcement
• Planetary tuners , geared fifth
• Vega style dowel stick ferrule
• Capo spike at 7 th fret
• 3/4 maple bridge , Brazilian rosewood top hand made ( by me ! 🙂 compensated third.

…..and so on … Here’s a chance to buy a nice hand made banjo at a very reasonable price . Feel free to email or phone for more details , I’ll do my best to help . Malc

Contact: 0787-0505-662 or malc(at)brightonbanjos.com