1930s Bacon & Day Special II Resonator Tenor Banjo

This is a customer's instrument that was in for repair and it was his grandfather's. It had a mess of old neck repairs that needed tidying and between Tim, Max, and myself we got it done. Tim replaced a bit of inlay, reinforced an old heel repair with dowels under the heel cap veneer and then cleaned it up, Max leveled and dressed the frets, and I repaired a badly-repaired headstock break and added reinforcement for it and then set it all up. It's now playing spot-on and has a proud-and-loud, cutting sound with oodles of volume.

It's a later, Gretsch-made B&D and has a simple, multi-ply maple rim with a Little Wonder-style "hoop in sleeve" tonering. The flange is fancy and so are all the details. It has really cool amber-style tuner buttons and a set of original, Grover, geared pegs at the headstock. The head and bridge are later.