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RK Osborne Scout Owners.

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This is a Group dedicated to the proud owners of The Osborne Scout.Lets share all about the Scout.

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From stringman711 on 1/25/2012 8:15:14 PM

I have the second protoype Scout. It has the original inlay pattern that has already been posted on this page, with the addition of the Sonny Osborne signature block on the next to last fret. It being a prototype, I was asked for feedback. One thing on mine was the hole for the fifth string peg was drilled a little too far back toward the peghead. The problem that caused was if you put the capo on to play in B, The fifth peg got in the way, and you either had to put the capo in the middle between the frets or it would be crooked, resulting in tuning problems. This was corrected in the production models. I was going to get a new neck to solve the issue, but chose instead to have Frank Neat fill the first hole and make a new hole in the proper spot. I didn't want to give up the original neck. (A very good neck by the way) I do play this banjo, and it gets better all the time.

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	2008 Recording King Sonny Osborne “Scout”-Cliff Fitch Custom Shop-Fults 1934 Tailpiece-Speed Neck Linked by JIMBO53 8 years ago
Photo: (untitled) Linked by momo 13 years ago: Another pic of Dana's Scout.
Photo: (untitled) Linked by momo 13 years ago: Prototype owned and played by Dana Cupp
Photo: (untitled) Linked by momo 14 years ago: This was the revised final pattern.This is the style inly we have on our production Scouts
Photo: (untitled) Linked by momo 14 years ago: Original inlay pattern purposed for the Scout. Dana Cupp has the pattern on his Scout.