Options (All prices in US dollars)

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• Ebony buttons: +40
• Gold tuners: +20
• Abalone rosette: +150
• Bone fingerboard inlays: +100
• Fossil ivory fingerboard inlays: +200
• Abalone purfling with wbw outline +150
• Presentation Style abalone inlays: +250
• Ebony peghead with wbw purfling: +150
• Cittern style peghead with geared PEGHEAD brand tuners +250
• Inlaid abalone V on cittern style peghead +50
• Inlaid mustache style bridge (steel string only): +150
• Inlaid back and end stripe: +75
• Tunnel 6th string (Removes the 5th fret peg from the neck, and adds it to the peghead): +50
• Premium grade rosewood back and sides: +100
• Flamed koa back & sides: +250
• Brazilian rosewood back and sides: +1000

There are many woods and decorative options that are available. I've been building custom instruments for over 30 years and I am very familiar with unusual requests. Call or email me for prices of items that you don't see listed.

Check Out These Custom Designs

5 string banjola custom built for Alison Brown.

5 string long neck (Pete Seeger style) banjola custom built for Larry Shirkey. It features flamed maple back and sides and neck, a cedar top, and a sliding 5th string capo. Listen to Larry play this banjola:

"Danny Boy"

9 string banjola custom built for Steve Mullins. (1st, 2nd, and 6th strings are doubled)

Banjola body with a dulcimer fretboard circa 1996.

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