Here, for your consideration, is a Robert Edney "Wooden Lady," due to the scalloped brass and wood tone ring. It's Edney #3 in the series. Nos. 1 and 2 have happy owners, according to Robert. All the hardware is solid brass...even the position markers. Hard maple was used for the block rim and the main portions of the neck. The rest of the wood is Bocate, which Robert believes produces a superior tone. (IMHO, it does!) He hand-selects the woods for tone. You can adjust the head tension, head type, and put something under the head to mute the tones to get anything from a resonate, ringing tone to an old-time plunky sound.
This Wooden Lady has a 26" scale, an 11" pot and is 3.5" deep in the pot. The nut is 1 5/16" wide and fashioned from lignum vitae, a waxey wood that lubricates the strings. It's equipped with 5-Star tuners, a No-Knot tailpiece, and a Remo head. I just had the set-up tweaked a bit by Waterville, Maine luthier, Dennis Patkus. Dennis moved the 5th string pip a couple of millimeters and left the original screw hole unfilled. The brass plate on the lower part of the rim, just below the tailpiece says "Wooden Lady" and Robert fixed a similar plate on the inside with the maker's information.
The banjo will be shipped in bubble-wrap and securely boxed. To hear Robert play this banjo, pull up the clip at: youtube.com/watch?v=j4FY_LHac1Q or search U-tube with "Wooden Lady banjo." Thanks for looking it over.
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