New Pegs on my "No Name"

 My sweet little open back "No Name" was sitting in the closet for about two years with a busted fifth string tuner and it really bummed me!!! I took it to a few repair guys in the region but no one would touch it because the neck is thin, or, slender is a term I prefer. One day I was talking with an old band mate and the guy who gave me my first banjo lesson, oh! He also invented a gizmo about 35-40 years ago called the "B String Bender". Pretty neat device in the hands of those who know how to use it! Anyway, I told him of my plight and asked him if he knew anyone who could do the job and he offered his services. So I sent him my baby and he went to work on it but it had broken off and the end was still in there in the shadows. But my friend is a master machinist among other talents and got it out eventually but found another even deeper stub in there. But being the diligent guy he is he did get it out and put on the peg and did the rest of the pegs ( Waverly's ) and sent her home to my happy hands and much gratitude to my friend. About my banjo, I found it hanging on a wall in a hallway leading back to a repair shop in a little music store in Hutchinson Ks. about ten years or so ago. I got it for 150.00 and it needed some pegs back then. the dealer threw in some real vintage pegs, two black and two white, ha! Well... It worked and hung in there for quite a few years till the fifth string mishap, but I digress. I was curious about this nameless banjo and I was touring at the time and eventually wended my way out to a gig in Cinncinatti Oh. where I found a shop called the old fashioned bajo shop or something like it. Folks in Cinn. will know where it is and what it's called. It's owned by a fella named Vernon McIntyre who is a very fine picker and his wife kitty is a killer fiddle gal!!! So I went to his shop and showed him what I had acquired and pretty much just spot sight said this is a "Blue Comet" out of Mont. Ward circa late 1900's. It's a sweet little thing and I know I'll never get that S.S. Stewart or Whyte Ladie but this has a sweet plunky tick tock that makes me get all warm inside so I'm happy! Anyway, just thought I'd pass this along to the wind.....