1920s George Houghton & Sons "Pageant" Resonator Banjo Ukulele
She's a looker, huh? This GH&S, UK-made banjo uke certainly looks like it could fit right in with some Formby numbers. It's got an archtop-style tonering design, is lightweight, extra-loud, and punchy for its size. As British jo-ukes are wont to be, the neck profile is a little chunky, but it plays great after work.
A customer owns this and she wanted it setup properly, some dot-inlay replaced, and a set of Gotoh UPTs thrown-on. This was done and the end-result is a banjo-uke that sports a 5/8" bridge, spot-on 1/16" action at the 12th fret, and a lot of chop. It's also strung-up low G so that it can be used for more-engaging lead work. Work included what was mentioned above as well as a fret level/dress job, too.
Specs are: 13" scale, 1 3/16" nut width, 15/16" string spacing at the nut, 1 3/8" spacing at the bridge, 7 7/8" rim diameter, 9 1/2" resonator diameter, and 2 1/2" depth. The neck has a flat-profile board and medium, C-shaped rear profile.
Materials are: maple neck, maple rim, ebonized-maple fretboard, aluminum hoop tonering suspended on brackets, nickel-plated steel flange and hardware, and all-original hardware (save tuners and bridge) throughout. The head is skin.
A customer owns this and she wanted it setup properly, some dot-inlay replaced, and a set of Gotoh UPTs thrown-on. This was done and the end-result is a banjo-uke that sports a 5/8" bridge, spot-on 1/16" action at the 12th fret, and a lot of chop. It's also strung-up low G so that it can be used for more-engaging lead work. Work included what was mentioned above as well as a fret level/dress job, too.
Specs are: 13" scale, 1 3/16" nut width, 15/16" string spacing at the nut, 1 3/8" spacing at the bridge, 7 7/8" rim diameter, 9 1/2" resonator diameter, and 2 1/2" depth. The neck has a flat-profile board and medium, C-shaped rear profile.
Materials are: maple neck, maple rim, ebonized-maple fretboard, aluminum hoop tonering suspended on brackets, nickel-plated steel flange and hardware, and all-original hardware (save tuners and bridge) throughout. The head is skin.
I added side dots and replaced all the face dots with 1/4" pearl because someone had put weird, rhinestone-like plastic markers in at some point in the past.
The owner wanted black, keystone/tulip-style buttons for the Gotoh UPT pegs.
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