5-String Resonator Banjos

Uniquely Deering, The Boston Banjo breaks with tradition and provides a professional quality sound at a lower price point by creating the drum from 3/16” rolled steel which rings like a tone ring and upgrading the accuracy of tuning with guitar style tuners with a higher gear ratio. The uniquely Deering inlay pattern gives you visual beauty enhancing the great performance.  This banjo is often the preferred sound in country recording studios, and in non-traditional bands like the Keith Urban Band.  The Deering Retail Price is $2019

This model is formerly known as the "Jim Mills w/ Truetone upgrade" but is now called a "Custom VRB-75-41 w/Truetone upgrade" because Mr. Mills dropped his endorsement when he left Ricky Skaggs.  The custom features that make up this banjo are:  gold-plating, engraving, V-neck, speed neck and etched and gold-plated clamshell tailpiece.

The Gibson RB-250 is the most standard and also one of the most common models of five-string Mastertone.   It was introduced in 1954 and in that original version it had "bowtie" fingerboard inlays.  In 1970 Gibson revised the model to have something called a "varied pattern" mother of pearl inlay sequence on the fingerboard - but for the most part, since the last inlay depicts a flying bird, we and many other people who are not yet institutionalized call it "Flying Birdie."

In flame maple and engraved gold plating this is a timeless classic! It has a shaded golden sunburst resonator which makes the flame maple jump out at you like a deranged sky diver. With the distinctive Lexington engraving, it proffers the famous Huber pot assembly, Truetone upgrade, and heavy gold plating.  It is nearly blinding in appearance and its exquisite sound will reduce manly men to a small pond of lachrymose fluid.

There is so much we do not know about the Vestal Stealth, since it flies under the radar, but we can tell you that it is bestowed with a new and original neck design   that does not have a large and flared out headstock, instead it more resembles a bizarre and hideous rectal probe carried by the itinerant scouts who hail from the planet Zorg.    For example it has a tunnel under the fingerboard that begins on the softly (rounded) pointed 7 ¼” long by 1 3/16th” wide headstock, and the string that enters that tunnel emerges just before the fifth fret and so it doesn’t require either its own nut or for the fretboard to have the wider extension at the fifth string.

The Crusader is made from mahogany and has nickel-plated metal parts. Its sound is both dynamic, mellow and exceedingly smooth (lacking stridency) and produces punch and power in all registers. This banjo, like all new Stellings, features the Tony Pass 600TS Old Wood Rim (preserved under pressure for hundreds of years beneath the big lake they call Gitchigumi, or some other lake) and housed in a deluxe TKL emerald green crushed velvet plush lined case.

In flavorful and nicely figured (burled and curled) American walnut and with heavy nickel plating this is a timeless classic! It has a twin concentric rings of colored wood purfling on the back of its doubly bound (black-right-black bordered) resonator which makes the figured walnut  jump out at you like a deranged sky diver. With the distinctive Roanokian style it proffers the famous Huber pot assembly, Truetone upgrade, and did we mention the heavy nickel plating?     

The Patent Pending Goodtime Special Tone Ring is a new feature released in 2010 on the Goodtime Special banjo. Designed by Deering, the new Goodtime Special tone ring produces a louder, sweeter bell tone, a considerable step up in tone from the original tone ring that was featured on our Goodtime Special banjos. 

The Eagle II banjo is a whole new breed of banjo. It features the ground- breaking, patent-pending Twenty-Ten Tone Ring which is an original Deering design that is unlike any other traditional tone ring. It produces a high quality sound that is versatile for many styles of playing. While the sound is uniquely Eagle-esque, it represents a refinement in the quality of banjo tone, something that allows the player to, um, soar to new heights.  The Deering List Price is $2549

The Patent Pending Goodtime Special Tone Ring is a new feature released in 2010 on the Goodtime Special banjo. Designed by Deering, the new Goodtime Special tone ring produces a louder, sweeter bell tone, a considerable step up in tone from the original tone ring that was featured on our Goodtime Special banjos.
The Deering List Price is $969

Chris Pandolfi of The Infamous Stringdusters is one of the bright lights in modern, 3 finger banjo, and his signature model Huber banjo reflects his unique style. It is made with a mahogany neck and resonator, and a mahogany rim as well. Chris feels that this rim offers a mellower tone with a wider dynamic range, even when set up like a typical bluegrass banjo.  

By slightly modifying and adding to the Bellflower inlay pattern, and making the neck and resonator out of curly maple instead of walnut, we've created the Sunflower. The shaded, Cremona style "sunburst" staining on this model is very popular and highlights the quality of the wood used.  Includes a Tony Pass 600TS Old Wood Rim and a deluxe TKL emerald green crushed velvet plush lined case.

One of Stelling’s more recently introduced models, inspired by master banjoist Bill Emerson, the Red Fox has outsold every other model since its introduction in 1996. Although new models tend to do that, Stelling thinks that this model will join the Staghorn in the banjo hit parade because of its universal appeal and acceptance as a classic banjo design. The fancy curly maple used in this model is enhanced by its reddish stain. The many-colored Red Fox in the peghead and the abalone maple leaves in the fingerboard help to make this striking and seductive.

Eastern hard rock maple neck and resonator stained a walnut color, 3-ply maple rim, sand cast virgin bell bronze tone-ring, ebony fingerboard,flower shaped mother-of-pearl inlays and white binding.
The Deering List Price is $4,079

Tone ring, satin finished, rock maple neck with slender profile, standard 11" diameter pot, with armrest and adjustable tailpiece, multi-ply birch/maple rim, maple resonator with black binding.

The Deering List Price is $969