First banjo to ship with a full set of minstrel hardware is nearing completion. My friend Aaron at Trimount Ironworks in Boston lent his expertise to the project, and we hammered out some very nice looking parts.

Hi everyone -

Emails through the website have been filtered to my spam folder for some unknown reason. So sorry if I haven't been getting back to you. Normally I take a long time to reply to emails, but not this long!

New Project:

Banjo season is back, and so am I. Unfortunately, as you may have noticed, flickr season seems to have passed: I changed the permissions on my account, and it also—to my surprise—changed all the URLs of my photos, turning this blog into a huge mess of "this photo is currently unavailable" messages.

I will slowly be bringing the photos back over the next couple weeks so the blog will actually useful again.

I'm currently working on two banjos at once—twins, as it were. Both will feature cherry necks with flush ebony frets and aged brass hardware. They should be done by the end of the month. Here they are getting ready to take shape. . .



More photos to come.

I have been getting a lot of banjo inquiries of late. Unfortunately at this time the demands of my day job, along with the grad program I'm in make it impossible for me to also dedicate the time and attention necessary for custom instrument work. In order to keep up with demand I have also sold off several pieces from my personal collection and no longer have any banjos in stock or for sale. This is why I will not be able to take on any new projects until after the semester comes to a close in May. If you are interested in arranging something with that time period in mind, please feel free to get in touch with me.