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From Yigal Zan on 9/28/2012 2:53:01 PM
Just acquired. Catalog illustration and info is printed on page 186 of Pleijsier's Washburn Prewar Instruments Styles. The banjo is style 422. It has 12" rim, 30 hooks, and the scale is 28". It has flush metal frets (18, the 19th was forfeited to provide room for inlay).
The catalog description doesn't make any reference to frets, not flush, nor raised. This is true of illustrations of other models which clearly have raised frets, that are illustrated in that same catalog.
To me this indicates that the lack of reference to frets is across the board - a catalog editting issue. It is not an indication that the banjos appearing in the catalog were fretless or fitted with flush frets.
I am looking for an answer to this question, is the use of metal flush frets original? or flushing the metal frets was done later?
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