Base Price: $975
Deposit: $350/ $550 with geared tuners
All prices are in US Dollars
*Deposits are non- refundable and are used to cover materials and confirm your build slot. The deposit may be raised if your order includes extras (ie. geared tuners, extra hardware etc).
Choose an option from each category below.
Any dollar amount beside a chosen option will be added to the base price.
Email countybanjoco@gmail.com with your chosen options to place an order.
Deposit: $350/ $550 with geared tuners
All prices are in US Dollars
*Deposits are non- refundable and are used to cover materials and confirm your build slot. The deposit may be raised if your order includes extras (ie. geared tuners, extra hardware etc).
Choose an option from each category below.
Any dollar amount beside a chosen option will be added to the base price.
Email countybanjoco@gmail.com with your chosen options to place an order.
Neck Options:
Handedness:
Left Handed
Right Handed
Neck Wood:
Cherry
Maple
Mahogany
Walnut: $80
White Oak: $80
Scale Length:
25”
25.5”
26.25”
27”
31”
Nut:
1 1/2” Wide (standard)
Peghead Shape:
(Original examples are pictured below)
Boucher scroll/fiddlehead with beehive deco
Boucher Bunny
Hookhead
Lyre (middle heart cutout): $60
Paddle
Scrimshaw
Stichter
Sweeney
Teed
Neck Shape:
(Original examples pictured below)
Boucher Ogee (check next option for full details)
Hookhead
Scrimshaw
Stichter
Sweeney
Teed
(Examples pictured below are used for inspiration only. Completed banjo will not be an exact historical replica)
Click picture for full view:
Handedness:
Left Handed
Right Handed
Neck Wood:
Cherry
Maple
Mahogany
Walnut: $80
White Oak: $80
Scale Length:
25”
25.5”
26.25”
27”
31”
Nut:
1 1/2” Wide (standard)
Peghead Shape:
(Original examples are pictured below)
Boucher scroll/fiddlehead with beehive deco
Boucher Bunny
Hookhead
Lyre (middle heart cutout): $60
Paddle
Scrimshaw
Stichter
Sweeney
Teed
Neck Shape:
(Original examples pictured below)
Boucher Ogee (check next option for full details)
Hookhead
Scrimshaw
Stichter
Sweeney
Teed
(Examples pictured below are used for inspiration only. Completed banjo will not be an exact historical replica)
Click picture for full view:
- pictures above are from “America’s Instrument” Banjo in the 19th Century by Phillip F Gura & James F Bollman/ Chapel Hill Publishers, Smithsonian Museum & James F Bollman.
Fret Position Markers:
(All markers can also be added to a Boucher neck
eg. Boucher Double Ogee + Flush Frets)
Boucher Single Ogee/ 4, 5, 7
Boucher Double Ogee/ 4 - 12: $60
Flush Fret/ 1-12: $140
Flush Fret/ 3, 5, 7, 10, 12: $70
Wood or Brass Dots/ 3, 5, 7, 10, 12: $40
Wood or Brass Side Dots/ 1-12: $60
Wood or Brass Side Dots/ 3, 5, 7, 10, 12: $40
Tuners:
Hardwood Friction Tuning Pegs
Peghed Geared Tuners (geared tuners that look like friction pegs): $200
Rim Options:
Rim Wood:
Maple (Recommended)
Cherry
Walnut: $100
Rim Diameter:
11”
12”
13”
14”: $60
Rim Height:
2.75”
3”
3.25”
Rim Top Ledge:
Flat
Beveled Inside
Round
Rim Bottom Ledge:
Flat
Beveled Inside
Beveled Outside
Round
Hardware:
Handmade Brass Tension Hoop, Flesh Hoop and Rickard Hardware (Ball shoes, hooks & hook nuts)
8 Brackets: Included in Base Price
10 Brackets: $20
12 Brackets: $40
14 Brackets: $60
18 Brackets: $100
28 Brackets: $200
Handmade Brass Tension Hoop, Flesh Hoop and Reproductions of 1850’s Brass Eagle shoes: $300
Head:
Goat Skin Head
Dowel Setup:
Dowel goes through both sides of rim
Dowel stops inside rim and attaches to a wooden end bolt: $40
Rim Colour:
Natural/ No Dye
Walnut Brown
Dark Brown
Mahogany
Black
Red
Lots of other colours available
Tailpiece:
County Minstrel
Stichter: $20
Strings:
Aquila Minstrels
Aquila Modern G Tuning, Medium Tension
Real Gut Strings: $100+
