The following is an excerpt from our free downloadable guide to customising your open back banjo. A Luthier is just a fancy name of someone who builds or repairs instruments and there are many excellent makers around the world to choose from. So what do you need to consider when deciding who to work with? […]
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First banjo I ever sold
Matt Lewins from the Brighton old time band , Chicken Shed Zeppelin called over to see me a few weeks ago. He had with him a banjo I’d made for him about fourteen years ago . This banjo has been his main instrument in that time and is on its third refret , but still […]
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 […]
Creating a Tunneled 5th String on a Banjo Commission
Just a quick blog post to show you some photos of a commission where the player wanted a tunnelled 5th string. Here are the photos from marking out the groove, cutting and fitting the nickel pipe: 1: Marking out 2: Cutting the groove 3: Fitting the nickel tube 4: How it looks once fitted Any […]
McLeod Banjos Makes Front Page News…
I was pretty chuffed to see that a story about The Lurcher film made it into our local paper The Argus. Since it was published we’ve had more shares, and votes for the film made by our friends at flycreative which is great to see. Currently the film is second in its category for votes […]
McLeod Banjos Documentary Accepted for Sony Production Awards – Votes Needed!
Recently a local film production company flycreative shot a micro-documentary called The Lurcher about the Brighton workshop and my range of Lurcher banjos. They submitted the finished film into the Sony Production Awards and it was accepted as a final entrant! They now need votes to help it along and I’d love to share it with […]