![]() ![]() The heel cap shows the same look with long stripes of the same checkerboard material with cream bindings and with multiple dark, light, dark wood purfling between the heel and the heel cap. The flat Ebony fingerboard has the “hearts and flowers” inlay and further checkerboard bindings seen on the left and right of the fingerboard face, as well as checkerboard purflings along the left and right sides. Gibson script pearl inlay is at the top with lots of tasteful pearl all around the peghead. The fiddle peghead is true to the originals with bold checkerboard bindings around the peghead. The more recent neck, from a currently unknown builder, also shows nice Maple figure and fine craftsmanship. Maple construction, with very showy wood figure in resonator, with the resonator back having quite intense burl, quilt, birds-eye, and flame figure almost all at once. ![]() This 1929 Gibson TB-6 conversion banjo is quite a peach! Rarer than you may think, these prized banjos are one of the most extensive ornate models as to it’s bindings, fabulous wood figure, and gold engraved parts, of any of Gibson’s showy banjos. ![]() Checkerboard Binding / Gold Engraved Hardware ![]()
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