CE Professional "Secret Improvements" - Classic-Banjo2024-03-29T10:30:23Zhttps://classic-banjo.ning.com/forum/topics/ce-professional-secret-improvements?xg_source=activity&feed=yes&xn_auth=noThe fingerboard is screwed on…tag:classic-banjo.ning.com,2021-08-26:2667446:Comment:1866212021-08-26T02:54:00.005ZJoel Hookshttps://classic-banjo.ning.com/profile/deuceswilde
<p>The fingerboard is screwed on too, so says the catalog.</p>
<p>I love my Professional, but I have to say that it is the most overbuilt banjo I have ever seen.</p>
<p>The fingerboard is screwed on too, so says the catalog.</p>
<p>I love my Professional, but I have to say that it is the most overbuilt banjo I have ever seen.</p> Yeah, those "improvements" ar…tag:classic-banjo.ning.com,2021-08-26:2667446:Comment:1868182021-08-26T01:18:37.551ZJody Stecherhttps://classic-banjo.ning.com/profile/JodyStecher
<p>Yeah, those "improvements" are hell on luthiers and anyone else trying to separate neck and pot for any reason.</p>
<p>In what year was this advertisement printed? I used to have a Clifford Essex Imperial made before the WW1 ("The Great War) that had these screws or nails or bolts. What a pain. It was a good sounding banjo especially with a natural vellum and a two footed bridge made from Osage Orange wood.. A lucky student of mine has it now. I told him that I'd sell him the banjo on…</p>
<p>Yeah, those "improvements" are hell on luthiers and anyone else trying to separate neck and pot for any reason.</p>
<p>In what year was this advertisement printed? I used to have a Clifford Essex Imperial made before the WW1 ("The Great War) that had these screws or nails or bolts. What a pain. It was a good sounding banjo especially with a natural vellum and a two footed bridge made from Osage Orange wood.. A lucky student of mine has it now. I told him that I'd sell him the banjo on the condition that if he ever wanted to change the bridge that he give the Osage one back to me.</p>