REILLY FRETLESS 'REDMAN' - NEW - Sold
Traditional features and simple elegance of design focusses on the natural beauty of woods in this new creation by Blackall Range luthier, Paul Reilly. His artistic whimsy is evident in the innovative use of stain to personalise this superb instrument. 'The Redman' will appeal to outward-looking players who are unafraid of challenge or change.
Fretless, open-back, hand crafted banjo 26 1/4" scale. Lancewood fingerboard with frailing scoop. Blackwood neck fitted with carbon-fibre non-adjustable truss rod (Fleischer design).24 bracket, 11" diameter pot. Native Australian tonewoods: - neck, dowel stick and pot are blackwood. Outer veneer faced with hand cut blackwood veneer, inner surface of lance wood veneer. Art deco peghead veneer with figured Eastern hard rock maple and African Blackwood. Neck and dowel stick have centre stripes of African blackwoods. Peg head backstrapping and heel capping are red-stained Eastern hard rock maple veneer. Remo Renaissance head. No Knots tailpiece. Waverly two-band tuners. Big Foot purple heart 5/8" bridge. Finish is hand rubbed Danish oil.
In snug-fit hard case. $3,200 AUD. Postage/insurance Eastern seaboard, $110 AUD - Sold.
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