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Playing Since: 1974

Experience Level: Purty Good

mralston has made 24 recent additions to Banjo Hangout 

Occupation: geologist

Gender: Male

Age: 61

My Instruments:
http://www.yellowstone-jewelry.com/Banjos/Collection/instrument%20Gallery.htm


Favorite Bands/Musicians:
Tommy Jarrell, Allen Brothers, Clarence Ashley, Ballard's Branch Bogtrotters, John Baltzell, Barter Young & Smith, Humphrey Bate, Mac Benford, Bentley Boys, Birkhead and Lane, Dad Blackard's Moonshiners, Blue Ridge Highballers, Blue Sky Boys, Bird's Kentucky Corn Crackers, Doc Boggs, Buck Mountain Band, Burnett & Rutherford, Callahan Brothers, Camp Creek Boys, Bob Carlin, Gaither Carlton, Carolina Buddies, Carolina Tar Heels, Carter Brothers & Son, John Carson, Carter family, Carter & Young, Fred Cockerham, John Cohen, Grey Craig, Kyle Creed, everyone at Clifftop, Clyde Davenport, Delmore Brothers, Hazel Dickens, Dykes Magic City Trio, East Texas Serenaders, Eck Dunford, Norman Edmonds, John D. Foster, J. P. Fraley, Freeny's Barn Dance Band, Fuzzy Mt String Band, Georgia Yellowhammers, Georgia Wildcats, Ted Gossetts String Band, Grayson & Whittier, Grinnell Giggers, Gray & Nelson, Hale & Derry, Ed Haley, John Hammond, Edden Hammons, John Hartford, Hickory Nuts, Highwoods, Willard Hodgins, Hollow Rock String Band, Tommy Jarrell, Oscar Jenkins, Jimmy Johnson's String Band, Grandpa Jones, Karl & Harty, Alfred Karnes, Buell Kazee, Fiddlin Van Kidwell, Walt Koken, Leake County Revelers, Marty Lebenson, Charlie Lowe, Emmett Lundy, Bascom Lamar Lunsford, McFarland and Gardner, Dave Macon, J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers, Wade Mainer, Marcus Martin, Massey Family, Sam & Kirk McGee, Floyd Ming & Pep Steppers, Monroe Brothers, Byrd Moore, Narmour & Smith, NLCR, Nicholsons Players, North Carolina Cooper Boys, Chubby Parker, Phipps Holiness Quartet, Pickard Family, Charlie Poole, Pope's Arkansas Mountaineers, Dirk Powell, Prairie Ramblers, Price Family Sacred Singers, Obray Ramsey, Reaves White County Ramblers, Red Fox Chasers, Alfred Reed, Henry Reed, Ola Belle Reed, Don Richardson, Rigel's Fountain Citians, Jean Ritchie, Roan Mountain Hilltoppers, Fiddlin Doc Roberts, Art Rosenbaum, Rustical Quality String Band, Rutherford & Foster, Scottdale String Band, Mike Seeger, Shelor Family, Smiths Garage Fiddle Band, Smith's Sacred Singers, Arthur Smith, Walter Smith, Allen Sisson, Kilby Snow, Skillet Lickers, South Georgia HIghballers, Carl Sprague, Stamps Quartet, Stanley Brothers, Lowe Stokes, Stoneman family, Am Stuart, John W. Summers, Supertones, Taylor's Kentucky Boys, Tennessee Mountaineers, Benny Thomasson, Three Tobacco Tags, Stephen Tucker, Uncle Bud and his Plow Boys, Crockett Ward, Wade Ward, Doc Watson, Weems String Band, Whetstone Run, Whitmire Blue Sky Trio, Chris Wig, Dacosta Woltz, Tommy Jarrell

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 mralston replied to topic 'Weymann mandolute half-breed ?' 5/15/2013 3:25:04 AM

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 mralston replied to topic 'Gibson banjo ID and value ?' 5/13/2013 1:49:48 PM

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 mralston posted forum topic 'Gibson banjo ID and value ?' 5/13/2013 2:54:29 AM

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 mralston replied to topic 'trying to ID this banjo' 4/2/2013 3:55:33 AM

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 mralston posted a classified ad 'Banjo-Mando #075' 4/1/2013 3:40:32 AM

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 mralston posted a classified ad 'Langstile Deluxe Plectrum' 4/1/2013 3:38:54 AM


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Rettberg & Lange 18" pot, neck may be a transplant on this banjo-guitar.
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18" pot dwarfs my 12" pot Gretsch banjo-guitar.
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OD pot wall = 18", dia across top of tone ring is ~ 17"
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R&L tag, also shows the metal pin that locates/secures the tone ring
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closeup of tone ring pin, also shows the heavy staple tone ring suspension
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Head goes from tone ring to ring that rests on the shoes
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Installing the head
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Group photo, R&L on back left
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Took two tries to get head right, still a couple of tiny puckers
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Burro near Glendive
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Burro @ Yellowstone River near Terry
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Checking out the Burro
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Checking out the Burro kitchen
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Recess for dowel end, tone ring above pot ~ 1mm
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Metal cladding is inset ~ 2mm for dowel hole
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bottom of pot painted black
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peghead minus tuners
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19 fret fngrbd extends ovr pot above 12th fret
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lip @ back base of peghead like Gretsch & Gibson
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heel details
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heel details, dowel yoke goes in tapered slots
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dowel stamp
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hardware similar to expt dowel yoke & nuts
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A pickup truck drove over this banjo
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Flimsy construction, one lapped piece of softwood.
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Inside lap. Copper nails, driven in from outside
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Bay State Piccolo banjo Model 299 - neck front
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Bay State Piccolo banjo Model 299 Dowel stamps
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Bay State Piccolo banjo Model 299 - peghead
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Bay State Piccolo banjo Model 299 pot
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Douglas - full front
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5th fret inlay
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WL tone ring, ser #, note shoe nuts
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shoes, crude dowel-end screw
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shoes & nuts
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Wurlitzer - tagged Slingerland #1
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Wurlitzer - tagged Slingerland #2
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Wurlitzer - tagged Vega
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beta-version Yellowstone Jewelry ivoroid tag
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