This banjo has a powerful well rounded tone unique to the Dobson Special with a comfortable neck profile ideal for all hand sizes and comfort while playing all over the neck. The Dobson Special utilizes a Dobson tone ring mounted on a rolled brass ring to isolate the tone ring from the wooden rim giving it a unique and powerful Dobson sound with more balanced and a crisp overall tone. It’s simple but elegant inlays and overall design has a vintage inspired look while having modern playability and durability.

• 25.5″ Scale Length
• 12″ Cherry Rim
• Dobson Special Tone Ring
• Black Mother of Pearl Dot Inlays
• Antiqued Brass Hardware
• Seeders Wide Notch Comfort Tension Hoop
• Seeders Curly Maple Armrest
• Striped Ebony Fretboard and Peghead
• Seeders Tailpiece
• Violin Bridge
• EVO Fretwire
• 1-5/16″ Black Tusq Nut
• Black Rim Binding
• Gotoh Tuners
• Renaissance Head
• Cole Boat Heel
• Flush Mount Truss Rod Cover
• Vintage Thin Nitrocellulous Satin Finish

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This banjo has a powerful well rounded tone unique to the Dobson Special with a comfortable neck profile ideal for all hand sizes and comfort while playing all over the neck. The Dobson Special utilizes a Dobson tone ring mounted on a rolled brass ring to isolate the tone ring from the wooden rim giving it a unique and powerful Dobson sound with more balanced and a crisp overall tone. It’s simple but elegant inlays and overall design has a vintage inspired look while having modern playability and durability.

• 25.5″ Scale Length
• 12″ Curly Maple Rim
• Dobson Special Tone Ring
• Hand Engraved Mother of Pearl Inlays
• Mother of Pearl Side Dots
• Ebony and Maple Backstrap
• Antiqued Brass Hardware
• Seeders Wide Notch Comfort Tension Hoop
• Seeders Curly Maple Armrest
• Seeders Tailpiece
• Violin Bridge
• Ebony Fingerboard and Peghead
• EVO Fretwire
• 1-5/16″ Black Tusq Nut
• Black Rim Binding
• Honey Maple Stain
• Rickard Cyclone Tuners
• Renaissance Head
• Cole Boat Heel
• Flush Mount Truss Rod Cover
• Vintage Thin Nitrocellulose Satin Finish

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The Mahogany Custom model is designed using only wooden inlays and unique green purflings paired with Zircote. The combination creates an elegant look while being quite unique to anything seen before. The 12″ rim paired with a Grenadillo tone ring and calf skin head gives it a strong punchy tone with plenty of depth and a well rounded attack.

• 12″ Mahogany Deep Rim
• 25.5″ Scale Length
• 1-5/16″ Nut
• Zircote Fretboard, Peghead, Heel and Rim Cap
• Dyed Calf Skin Head
• White and Black Ebony Inlays
• Green and Black Purfling Details
• Grenadillo Tone Ring
• Antiqued Brass Hardware
• Seeders Violin Bridge
• Gotoh Tuners
• Hard Oil Satin Finish

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This banjo has the standard Seeders 12″ Walnut Style 1 specs. It features a simple look with a focus on play ability and tone. The rolled brass tone ring is an excellent choice for old-time playing and the 12″ rim gives it a rich deep sound.  The neck is a modern C shape neck for a comfortable feel.

• 25.5″ Scale Length
• 12″ Walnut Rim
• Rolled Brass Tone Ring
• Antiqued Raw Brass Hardware
• EVO Fretwire
• Ebony Fingerboard and Details
• 1-5/16″ Nut
• Seeders Violin Bridge
• Hard Oil Satin Finish

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This is a variation of the Seeders Dobson Special made with Curly Maple. This banjo has a powerful well rounded tone unique to the Dobson Special with a comfortable neck profile ideal for all hand sizes and comfort while playing all over the neck. The Dobson Special utilizes a Dobson tone ring mounted on a rolled brass ring to isolate the tone ring from the wooden rim giving it a unique and powerful Dobson sound with more balanced and a crisp overall tone. It’s simple but elegant inlays and overall design has a vintage inspired look while adding modern play ability and durability.

This banjo is owned by the talented Allison de Groot. You can hear her playing it with Bruce Molky’s “Molsky’s Mountain Drifters” as well as her other duo with Tatiana Hargreaves.

• 25.5″ Scale Length
• 12″ Curly Maple Rim
• Stern Tannery Calf Skin Head
• Dobson Special Tone Ring
• Hand Engraved Mother of Pearl Inlays
• Antiqued Brass Hardware
• Striped Ebony Fingerboard
• EVO Fretwire
• 1-5/16″ Bone Nut
• Gotoh Tuners
• Rich Brown Stain
• Cole Boat Heel
• Hard Oil Satin Finish

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This is a variation of the Seeders Style 3 Dobson Special made with Curly Maple. This banjo has a powerful well rounded tone unique to the Dobson Special with a comfortable neck profile ideal for all hand sizes and comfort while playing all over the neck. The Dobson Special utilizes a Dobson tone ring mounted on a rolled brass ring to isolate the tone ring from the wooden rim giving it a unique and powerful Dobson sound with more balanced and a crisp overall tone. It’s simple but elegant inlays and overall design has a vintage inspired look while adding modern play ability and durability.

• 25.5″ Scale Length
• 12″ Curly Maple Rim
• Dobson Special Tone Ring
• Hand Engraved Mother of Pearl Inlays
• Antiqued Brass Hardware
• Striped Ebony Fingerboard
• EVO Fretwire
• 1-5/16″ Bone Nut
• Gotoh Tuners
• Red Brown Stain
• Cole Boat Heel
• Hard Oil Satin Finish

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This banjo features some of my favorite inlay and engraving work yet. The unique folklore trickster theme led us to make some very fun decisions that tied everything together very nicely in a personal and cohesive way. We started with B’rer Rabbit on the peghead and the Japanese Kitsunev, a nine tailed fox, in the scoop with fox prints traveling up the fingerboard. We later added a raven to the back of the peghead and lastly a butterfly to the heel. The connection of the two is as follows, “in the Canadian Pacific northwest, the Haida depict Butterfly as the companion of Raven the Creator-Trickster, perhaps acknowledging the unpredictable and unreliable nature of “flights of fancy” and dreaming”. The copper of the half fretless overlay with brass screws led to the use of copper and brass side location dots as well as the raw brass hardware. Overall a very fun and playful but elegant design resulted.

• 12″ Curly Walnut Rim
• 25.5″ Scale Length
• Wenge Tone Ring
• Copper and Brass Half Fretless Overlay with Engraved Fret Markers
• Copper with Brass Eye Side Location Dots
• Ebony Peghead Binding
• Engraved White, Black and Gold Mother of Pearl and Abalone Inlays
• Figured Maple Details with Golden Brown Stained Finish
• Backstrap
• Raw Brass Hardware
• Brooks Banjos Hooks and Nuts
• Scalloped Ebony Nut
• Seeders Violin Bridge
• Fielding Tailpiece
• Aquila Nylgut Strings

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This Mahogany and Claro Walnut banjo was built for talented Vermont musician, Jeremy Sicily. It features a twelve-inch pot with with Vermont-themed custom engraved inlays. The twelve-inch stained black pot is made from Claro Walnut with a Mahogany rim cap and Wenge tone ring. The neck is a beautiful piece of curly mahogany that features a ogee neck carving behind the fifth fret. The state of Vermont inlay at the fifth fret features an engraving of Vermont’s counties.

Listen to Jeremy’s band the Flat Top Trio.

• 12″ Claro Walnut and Mahogany Pot
• 25.5″ Scale Length
• 1 1/4″ Nut
• Hand Rubbed Oil Finish
• Lightly Antiqued Brass Hardware
• Ogee Curve Carving Behind Fifth Fret
• Seeders Cherry Bridge
• Seeders Pyramid Heel
• Engraved Mother of Pearl Inlays
• Scooped Fingerboard
• W.A. Cole Style Peghead

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