will's banjos hit the tv news

WCAX burlington recently featured will in their 'made in vermont' last monday on the six o'clock news.
here's a link to the tape.  it was great!.  check it out if you have a minute.  they filmed and talked for about an hour and boiled it all down to about 3 minutes.  a lot of work goes into this stuff.

 

he's currently working on banjo #13 and i'll post more photos tomorrow ..

cool inlays .. should have the finish on it soon ...

banjo 010

will's banjo #010 was picked up last week, and it was a beauty. it had a long neck like pete seeger's, his first engraved pearl inlays, and a cool black finish ... click the photos to enlarge them ...

looooong neck

i didn't get many in process photos

close up of the engraved and dyed inlays

ebony veneered peghead

the back, with the black finish

no videos yet, but i see will has put pictures of banjo #009, aka the 'daffodil' banjo, up on his website, seeders instruments.

you can see the length of the neck in the rough here, compared to the picolo banjo next to it.#009 .. the daffodil banjo