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what can i say other than what other people have said. chris has done a outstanding job for me on my banjo. i had purchased an rk-80 a few year,s back , after playing this banjo for awhile and i was leraning what to listen for in a banjo as far as quailty goes, i started to hear small changes in this banjo. small rattlling noises buzzes fretting and non frrtting. the frets were starting to get bad as well. so rather than try to fix it my self i thought i would give chris a call. one night when i was listening to banjo talk dave had cliff fitch on the show talking about set up and repair, so the next day i called cliff and asked him about a set up and having some work done, that,s when he told me that he going out of the banjo business and he told me that chris was the man i should talk to. so after a while i called chris and talked to him about the problems i was having with my rk. chris explaned to me what could be going on with my banjo. i sent my banjo to chris to have him check it over . i agreed to have chris tear my banjo down and check it over. chris called me bavk about a week later to let me know what he had found. i knew it had problems so i had chris do the work he had recomeded. i opted for the stainless steel frets. also had him install a cox rim, chris did a complete set up and pepair. hand fit the tone ring to the new rim,new huber head,a complete neck rest ,level the finger board. new bone nut because the one on the banjo was plastic. bone fith string nut. reset L-bracket,s and put hubber screws in them. polish pearl and fret board. polish all the metal part,s as well. after the work was done chris did a complete set up on the banjo. what can i say . i am vary happy with chris,s work he kept me informed every step of the way. let me know the what where and why the parts that need to be replaced . here is the best part, after i got my banjo back from chris it looked better than new and after about three weeks i was noticing some changes going on with my banjo. when i got my banjo back the sound was the cleanest i have heard in a long time. the notes were to me extra chrisp and clean no buzzing no rattles just the tone was as it should be. last week i was playing cripple creek and this banjo just woke up so to speak. i was so excited i called chris jus to let him know what had happened, chris had told me that as thing,s settle in it will just get better. i know this to be true because my brother had bought a guitar back in the late sixties hollow body that,s what we called them then. and after all the year,s that thing is as mellow as can be. the more you play the mellower it get,s. it,s all in the wood and a good set up to begin with. so in closing if you are looking for some one to repair and setup your banjo give chris a call. paulb.
Overall Rating: 10
