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Glen Lees |
I have a Gibson RB180 longneck 5 string, like the one John Stewart's playing on the cover of Kingston Trio LP "Number 16".
It's been described as Gibson's response to the Vega Pete Seeger longneck, extemporaneously assembled by Gibson from existing inventories, which resulted in a mastertone tone ring with a base which was wider than the top of the rim by about an eighth of an inch. When installed, the outer vertical edge of the tone ring was flush with the outer edge of the rim, but the inner edge of the tone ring was not - it extended about an eighth of an inch towards the center from the rim which supported it.
Can someone explain to me just how this apparently diminishes the performance of the banjo's tone ring?
Here's what got me thinking about this again - a "banjo pot assembled by pros", which has what appears to be exactly the same problem as the RB180 :
http://cgi.ebay.com/COMPLETE-MAPLE-BLUEGRASS-BANJO-POT-ASSEMBLED-BY-PROS_W0QQitemZ370251064813QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item5634aee5ed&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
Thanks for your interest.
Regards ............ Glen
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