Weymann style_20_no ring_no clad

[marc dalmasso]

i like very much this banjo ( i play it on " poppies & wheat " ) ; no tone ring ,no clad but a woodhoop and it is powerful ; it ' is a 10 1/2 pot ; from my research , Weymann used to built only 7 ( ukes & piccolos ) , 9 , 10 1/2 , 11 and 12 inches ' pots . May be 20 is for 20 bucks because these were entry levels ' ones ; but the mapple wood is always from 1st quality and so are the heavy metal parts . Mine is number 20382 ( from1917 or 1918 , i guess ; the patented stuff on the dowel is here) . I buyed it 200 euros from ebay Belgium but the guy made a very bad packaging and the head was broken when it arrived . ( see photos ) he re found me 100 euros ; i re -glued it myself and i made a new headplate ( rosewood ) because the original was broke ; another thing , the fingerboard was totally destroyed , the fingerboard was only dust ; i guess it was a chemical oil or something else they applied in the factory to colour the wood , but 100 years after , it is not good ; I ordered a new rosewood fingerboard from Stewmac and _surprise .... the gibson size is exactly the Weymann size ; i think the standard Gibson scale is the original Weymann ' one ; I re glued & fretted the fingerboard and here are the pictures of the Bj , original élite tailpiece , original Grover tuners , original metal pieces & Weymann brackets.