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1935tb-11 - Posted - 04/21/2026: 06:53:33
in this pic of hartford ,scruggs and blake i don't recognize the gibson banjo hartford is playing. it looks like a modified 250 ?
rbfour5 - Posted - 04/21/2026: 07:18:16
Looks like it could be a 1068-69 Bowtie with some added inlays?
The Old Timer - Posted - 04/21/2026: 08:06:58
Although the fiddle peghead WAS on the final iteration of the bowtie 250 in about 1969, the bowtie inlays appear to be from pre-1960, in that there is a skinny bowtie one fret higher than the MASTERTONE block.
I think it's more likely that this is an older neck that some luthier worked on to reshape the peghead and add the little inlays.
But it could be a 1969 neck with a pre-1960 fingerboard put on it...
Since flat heads were very rare in the 1950s, this may be a parts banjo too. Note the old 4 hump tailpiece.
Great photo.
Edited by - The Old Timer on 04/21/2026 08:07:59
Dan Gellert - Posted - 04/21/2026: 08:14:45
That headstock shape and peg placement look odd. Could have started out as a flyswatter.
BanjoBowers - Posted - 04/21/2026: 11:16:25
According from his interview in the "Masters of the Five String", it is a Prewar Gibson Granada tenor pot, with a replacement flat head tone ring and an "69 RB-250 neck....he put the extra inlays in the neck ...used his pocketknife!! Wild looking ride for sure!!
banjonz - Posted - 04/21/2026: 16:19:10
I used to own late 60's RB250. That definitely looks like a modified period neck.
1935tb-11 - Posted - 04/25/2026: 13:34:29
thanks LEVI .. you da man.... i figured if you saw you would know.
if you notice it has holes in it where some ugly tuners or some type of cam tuners were once mounted.
the best i can come up with on my research the photo is from 1971.
Edited by - 1935tb-11 on 04/25/2026 13:38:10
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