Twaang says:
7/18/2013 12:35:16 PM

Mine also is on the rim.

Applesnake says:
2/16/2018 4:38:59 AM

I happen to own either a B-10 and a B-12 Japanese made Washburns, both built in 1982, both bought second hand at bargain price. They share the same wood (red lauan), peghead shape and materials. Fretboard is the funky ebony veneered plywood, same 12-ply rim with mahogany veneer and same construction pattern with beveled steel tone hoop and tension hoop, 24 standard L-shoes and round brackets, same framework with different pot hardware, tuners and decoration. Hardware plating is full nickel on the B-12 save the tuners (Japanese oval 3:1 planets with press-fit bushings - but the geared 5th is nickel plated) and a fantasy mix on the B-10 including guitar-style tuners with friction 5th - four chrome flange plates for a small size resonator B-12 is a standard resonator banjo with Gibson-style flange under the shoes), MT-style armrest, and Waverly copy tailpiece.

Both are currently dismantled waiting to undergo a full setup. The B-10's neck has already been trued, the fretboard refretted, plastic dots replaced with genuine pearl with a simple star-and lozenge pattern. The rim has been fully sealed with thin CA and will receive a Whyte Laydie tone ring plus a second coordinator rod to support the infamous turnbuckle "single" rod, notched tension hoops, and new planet tuners. The B-12 will follow suit with more or less the same upgrades but different tone ring. Maybe a heftier flatbar brass hoop, maybe a Whyte Laydie or maybe a Dobson.

The B-12's fretboard is identical to the period Iida 232 with genuine pearl split diamonds lacking 19th and 22nd and corresponding side dots (pattern already completed).

On both banjos the oval, manila sticker with hand-written serial number and inspection signature was glued inside the resonator. On both, the factory label will be backed by a closed cell, self sticking neoprene foam sheet with punched recesses for shoe bolts, then finally relocated on the rim's inner wall.

B-18 Cleaned Up with New Head 1 of 2
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1890s Washburn (Lyon & Healy)
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