They are so good many professionals have recorded with Goodtime banjos. Designed for success, the Goodtime banjos are the lowest priced American made banjos. He remembers what it was like to want a good banjo and not be able to afford one, so his gift to others is the Goodtime banjo line. Greg Deering designed the Goodtime banjos because there were no low priced banjos of enough quality for people to actually learn on without difficulty or giving up. At the Deering shop with the same tooling we use to make the top of the line banjos.
Neck: Blonde Slender Rock Maple Neck 22 Pressed In Nickel Silver Frets Exotic Wood Bowtie Inlays Geared Tuners Geared 5th String Tuner Sealed Geared Guitar Tuners Durable Satin Finish Deering Fiddle Shaped Peghead Pot: 3-ply Violin Grade Goodtime Maple Rim 11” Frosted Top High Crown Head Steel Tension Hoop 16 Bracket Shoes 16 Flat Hooks with 9/32” Hex Nuts Patented Goodtime Tailpiece 2 Piece Flange Nickel Plated Armrest Nickel Plated Hardware Resonator: Resonator of Blond Maple Black Binding esonator back provides more projection of sound in the Goodtime 2. The Goodtime 2 has a natural blond maple satin finish to protect it. The Goodtime 2 weighs 6 lbs, about the weight of a guitar.
At the Deering shop with the same tooling we use to. $80,000.A resonator back provides more projection of sound in the Goodtime 2. These originals during that time period had rough pearl work in them but that is just like all of them I have ever seen up close. Almost all of these are tenors and this is pretty rare. Remember that the onset of World War II forced Gibson to use what they had and many banjos left the factory somewhat outside of catalog specifications. The armrest in atypical for a top tension as it is a standard pre-war armrest and the headstock inlay ins’t standard. The banjo has mixed plating having a tension hoop plated in chrome and a tension hoop plated in nickel. The instrument has 10-32 nuts on the back side of the top tension “hooks” which is common. We performed a complete refret, Installed a New head, Corrected some wood rim delimitation issues which were slightly (we used hot hide glue for this) we filled in some really bad pits in fingerboard, we performed some mother of pearl work (augmenting for some missing pieces that had chipped and fell out (better to have a piece of pearl where one wasn’t that doesn’t quite match than to have a piece missin g). $1,900.00 Contact Acoustic Box LLC in Chesterfield, Virginia (Near Richmond) call or text me at: (757) 613-9627ġ942 All Original Gibson RB-7 5-String Flathead for saleįor Sale: 100% Original Flathead 5-String Gibson RB-7 Banjo.