A 2012 Omega just turned up at the Denver Folklore Center for $6500 (which seems like more than the new ones that hit the market this past summer):
https://www.mandolincafe.com/ads/178887#178887
A 2012 Omega just turned up at the Denver Folklore Center for $6500 (which seems like more than the new ones that hit the market this past summer):
https://www.mandolincafe.com/ads/178887#178887
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2005 National RM-1
2007 Hester A5
2009 Passernig A5
2015 Black A2-z
2010 Black GBOM
2017 Poe Scout
2014 Smart F-Style Mandola
2018 Vessel TM5
2019 Hogan F5
That one sold already.
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I purchased the one at Denver folklore. Here are some photos below...
If you have the opportunity to purchase an Ome Omega, I recommend you do so and don’t look back. Ome got everything right on this banjo...
Dem
P.S. The Music Emporium has a couple Omegas on order that should be available by next August.
Last edited by Mandobar; Nov-29-2021 at 7:39am.
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Those look like Glenn Carson inlays. He does the best job. I have a Fielding banjo that Glenn did in the inlay work on. I have one he is making for me now from a banjo Will Fielding started before he died. It is sycamore. It's a long story but lets just say it started thirty years ago.
Glen Carson does the engraved inlays for OME.
There are only a handful of people doing engraved inlays: Will Seeders, Pharis Romero, Kevin Enoch, Bob Anderson, Glen (who may have taught a lot of the others or at least shared his knowledge) and Greg Galbraith from Buckeye Banjos (I may have missed a few others). Kevin Enoch makes some amazing banjos, but his wait list is out over 5 years.
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The Music Emporium has a walnut one and a maple one on order. Mando bar is right though, there’s no telling how long those will take.
Someone needs to buy this one: https://www.pisgahbanjos.com/product/banjo-2002/
Patrick and his crew make great banjos, and they are very social as well as civic "conscious". The entire shop is solar powered, and they are very involved in forest repopulation, among other things.
If Yvon Chouinard (the founder of Patagonia) played banjo, he'd play a Pisgah. A custom order from Pisgah is at least a 12 month wait. There are virtually none available at any of their dealers.
Who knew. Banjos, better than Bitcoin.
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I started playing old time banjo and fiddle back in the 1970s when there were very few modern banjo shops and most of the players I knew played old/vintage banjos. You can still get a great sounding old time banjo, Vega, Orpheum, Stewart and the like for a reasonable and if properly set up you can get the sound you want. I know the modern makers mentioned throughout this thread are excellent. When I play old time banjo I pick up my favorite Fairbanks Senator with a skin head or my earlier Fairbanks & Cole shorter scale. In any case, that is another alternative, from that other golden era of instrument building.
Jim
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1924 Gibson A4 - 2018 Campanella A-5 - 2007 Brentrup A4C - 1915 Frank Merwin Ashley violin - Huss & Dalton DS - 1923 Gibson A2 black snakehead - '83 Flatiron A5-2 - 1939 Gibson L-00 - 1936 Epiphone Deluxe - 1928 Gibson L-5 - ca. 1890s Fairbanks Senator Banjo - ca. 1923 Vega Style M tenor banjo - ca. 1920 Weymann Style 25 Mandolin-Banjo - National RM-1
I, like Jim have played vintage banjos. Sold the Tubaphone decades ago as it was too heavy. Sounded Great, but too heavy. Still have and play my 1890 Washburn tho. Would love to get one of the modern 12" pot 25" scale, but don't play enough banjo these days to justify it. Actually not long ago sold a 12" Vega tubaphone with a modern 25" scale neck. Again sounded great, but too heavy.
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Great instruments inspire you to play. I hadn’t touched a banjo in a while but bought a nice Pisgah Possum off Reverb last week. Strung with nylons, hide head. Light and very plucky. I’m kind of liking the nylon strings. They are the new sets designed in conjunction with Aquila.
And yes, the Omegas are great, radiused fretboards and all. But that tone ring weighs a ton.
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