b'Tristan Seumes guitar and banjoI dont often use a spruce top onAfter a bit of haggling and smoothingin the fingerboard. Maybe another soft back and sides such asthings over with the shop I managedday. There are 50 sections of Claro mahogany. I like to think of theto divert it to Tristan, and now it isWalnut in the rim, capped with soundboard moving in relation to thebeing played properly, it turns headsAfrican Blackwood top and bottom. soundbox, not the other way around.and brings me new orders. Tris didnt want a big ugly tuner for I had some small pieces of Cubanthe fifth string, so I returned to an Mahogany from Mike Waterson, andFylde Banjo old idea of a narrow tube inside the I wanted to make a worthwhile guitarneck to carry the string to the tuner from them, I decided the wood wasWhen something grabs my interest,at the headstock.I had to work stiff enough to support a spruce top,it will get made no matter what elsehard to source all the raw brass but I didnt know how it was going toI am supposed to be doing.Tristancomponents, we polished them all work out, so I used it for one of myasked me if I would be willing toby hand to make them a bit gentler Personal Selection instruments, notmake him a banjo.If most peopleon the eye and I think they match made for a specific customer.had asked me that I would have saidthe dark wood very nicely, Im really I didnt have my email newsletter ata rather quick no, but it was Tris,pleased with it, I havent had so the time, so I sent it to be displayedand I almost started drooling at themuch fun for a long time. My lathe at a shop in Worthing. This is wherechance to work with some goodis exactly the right size for making Tristan saw it; I received a phone callsolid metal, and I said yes. snooker cues and is also exactly -Roger, Ive just seen this guitar, itsTris told his friends it was going tothe right size for making banjos.I lovely, I want it! be made by Uncle Roger, so I didhope that isnt some sort of devilish wonder about inlaying Uncle Rogercoincidence. 270'