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I cannot why more banjo companies don't offer a greater variety in neck width and scale length (I like 24.75" scale).
It’s about the economics of production. If you intend the product for mass markets, you need to limit the tooling and input costs.
Banjos are a niche market, a smaller subset of that category won’t require large production runs.
Personally, I don’t like the Deering Goodtime, but I’ve told many people it’s a good place to start. If you loose interest, you are not out a lot of money, and they seem to have a decent resale value.
If the market is there, someone will sell to it. Meanwhile, the custom builders fill the gap if you are willing to pay for it.
With no truss rod in the neck, the Deering Goodtime is the worst and most over-priced commercial banjo on the market. I do not recommend them.
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How could a bunch of strangers, most of us across an ocean from you give any meaningful advice,
It is also not clear WHAT YOU MEAN BY A MOUNTAIN BANJO.
It is also not clear what kind of recording King you have.
You may be new to the banjo life. A person with one banjo is barely a banjoist. it is not one banjo versus another but one banjo versus more than 1, Each banjo I have played from the junkiest pawn shop banjo to the time Mike Seeger let me pick Dock Boggs banjo has its own little secret to give.
So your tasks are to explain what you mean by a mountain banjo and to explain what kind of Recording King banjo you have. I stil think strangers across an ocean dont have much to tell you about this.
Originally posted by Banjo BoltonI'm 8 months into my banjo journey with a handful of songs under my belt.
I play a recording king open back which I have fitted with nylon strings.
It's great, However after listening and enjoying various mountain banjo sounds (such as Noah Clines MountainOpus) and the the chance to purchase a beautiful, professionally made mountain banjo...I'm thinking about the possibility of buying it and then selling my recording king to part find it.
Does anyone else have a mountain banjo as their only banjo?
Date your banjos, don't marry them.
This needs to be a tee shirt, a button, a tattoo, a song, an international movement, a new religion!
The key to banjo life is the more different banjos the merrier. I have known about 2 or 3 thousand banjoists in my 25 years of banjoing myself. I only know of 2 banjoists who are real banjoists who own 1 banjo, I must say one of them, his 1 banjo the past few decades was a banjo certified as the a banjo Charlie Poole used for his recordings.
I have 7 banjos at current, including some vintage Vega and Fairbanks banjos and a nice Enoch and a wonderful Gold Tone I have had since 2003, but I still miss the first Good Time banjo I had (from back when they had just one model in the 90s_) that got stolen.
Bob it is funny how it is always just one more, no honesty to say just 3 more.
Buy the mountain banjo, and the keep the Recording King. You'll thank me later.
Bob B. is completely right.
If you ever get in doubt of how many banjos you should have, there is a mathematical formula always telling you the correct number, and it says: "The number you have just now + one". And it goes for guitars too. Steen
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Originally posted by Banjo BoltonThankyou.
I have no interest in bluegrass. It's all about old time for me.
Blasphemy..!!.. Lolol
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Originally posted by writerradDate your banjos, don't marry them.This needs to be a tee shirt, a button, a tattoo, a song, an international movement, a new religion!
Testify..!!.. I Have A Banjo Harem....
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