Intermountain Guitar and Banjo

In As-Found Original Condition. Gibson TB-3 Mastertone Tenor Banjo 40-Hole Arch Top Tone Ring. Original Grover Geared Pancake Geared Pegs. Original Grover Presto Tailpiece. A Couple of Finish Issues. Missing Armrest. Original Red-Line Case.

A Rare Short-Scale Silver Bell Tenor Banjo. 17 Fret neck with 22" Scale Length. Straight neck and Low Action. No Knee-Mute and never had one, but the little bushed hole in the rim to accommodate the mechanism is present. Otherwise, pretty much the Renowned Bacon Silver Bell Tenor Banjo: Banjo-Orchestra Power with the Celtic-Friendly Shorter Spaces Between the Frets. Case...

An interesting and plain version of Vega's famous Whyte Laydie #2 banjo. Stamped "Fairbanks Banjo by The Vega Co". All original banjo except for the older set of planetary geared pegs. Good neck, a little playing wear in the first position, with the odd ding and scratch typical of a well-treated but well-played 110 year-old instrument. Hard Case. I love playing this banjo!

Short-Scale 17-fret Bruno Magic Wonder Tenor Banjo, probably made by Slingerland or Lyon & Healy around 1930. 10 3/4" rim with a serious original tone-ring. Fresh off a High-Profile Lukas Nelson tour, with New Gotoh tuners, a Renaissance head, low action and a gritty, punchy tone. This baby delivers!

A Unique Kevin Enoch "Round Peak" Banjo, 12" pot with Tubaphone Tone-Ring, added later by Kevin. Walnut Neck with Formica Fingerboard, Peghead Facing and Heel-Cap. Skin Head and Planetary Geared Pegs. Sharp, Crisp Tone, and in Ex-fine Like-New Condition. Original Hard Shell Case with Enoch Tag.

A true rare bird. An All-Original and well-played MB-11 with original Red-Line Hard Shell Case. Worn finish on the neck. Worn frets testify to the serious musician-ship of the original owner. A little rust/corrosion on the hooks and on spots on the one-piece flange. Possibly after-market decal-detailing around resonator sides.

A Felicitous Marriage between an original 1930 Vega Tubaphone 10 15/16" rim and a refinished 1960's Vega 5-String Neck. 26" Scale Length. Stew-Mac 5-Star Planetary Geared Pegs. Deering Gig-Bag. CASE: gig bag CONDITION: Excellent SERIAL: #91154 YEAR: 1930-1960 PRICE: 995.00

A prime example of Bart Reiter's Internal Resonator Banjos, featuring The Bacon-Style hollow rim and special Bacon Tone-ring. Unabashedly Bright and Natural-finished Figured Maple Neck and special rim with interior Marquetry. Ebony fingerboard. Stew-Mac 5-Star Planetary Geared Pegs. Original Hard Case. Near-Pristine Condition. SERIAL: #1249

A 70's Fender Artist Bluegrass Banjo with Flathead Mastertone-Style Tone-ring. Walnut Neck and Resonator. Planetary Geared Pegs. Excellent Original condition with minor playing wear. Made in So. California. Hard Case.

An early OME Triple-X Bluegrass Banjo. Heavy Bronze Flat-head Tone-Ring. Mahogany Neck and Resonator. A nice used banjo with some modest playing wear. 5-Star Planetary tuners, OME tailpiece. Original Hard Case.

Top-of-The-Line Gibson Plectrum. Flying Eagle Pearl Pattern. Gold-Plated and Engraved [note some missing gold on the armrest] The rest of the gold-plating is bright and fresh. Original engraved Gibson pegs, original Gibson Tailpiece and Armrest. Minor playing wear. Gibson Case.

This Mastertone features Gibson's 1980 huge improvement in Banjo construction: Instead of the multi-ply plywood rim they used for about 16 years previously, now the rims were 5-ply Maple. Added to this was the Gibson Bell Bronze flathead tone-ring which in this case is a beefy nearly 5 lbs. in weight. A small well-repaired peghead crack and some minor playing wear add some reality to an...

Schireson’s Hollywood ukuleles were built by Robert E. Pearson, an English luthier who was once a well-known banjo-uke builder and also had worked for Martin Guitar prior to moving out to California to build for the Schireson Bros. I am not A ukulele player, but this one seems quite good. There are a couple of small cracks in the back that have been addressed.

A basic Bacon Tenor Banjo in nearly un-played condition. Unmarked, but clearly a Groton Bacon Banjo. 11" pot; 19 Frets. An Original Bacon Hard Shell case in Remarkably Nice Condition. Serial: #34975 Condition: Ex-Fine and Original Case: orig hsc Price: $425.00

Martin Custom Shop 00-21 with Adirondack Spruce top and Madagascar Rosewood Back and Sides. Nearly Mint and Unplayed with one finish blemish on the back of the neck, [from a guitar stand?] and one hairline top-crack at the treble waist. Great Tone and Playability. Original Martin Hard Case. Consignment Clearance. MAKER: Martin CASE: orig hsc CONDITION: Near...

Description Here we have a lovely Prairie state jumbo circa 1930, hard to figure the exact date, it does have the number 611 stamped next to the prairie state stamp and patent numbers. Measuring just under 15” at the lower bout, 2 3/4” depth at the neck, 3 3/8” at the end pin. It is an extremely clean, shiny example, shows very little use of playing, original pebble Hardcase in similar...

Early 1930's Slingerland [We Think] Banjo Pot with Fretless Neck by Bob Flesher in Georgia in 1993. Curly Maple Neck with Ebony Fingerboard and Peghead Facing. 10 13/16" Rim size, 22 1/2" Scale Length [Approx.], Total Length 32". Planetary Geared Pegs. Calf-Skin Head. Gig Bag. YEAR: 1930/1993 PRICE: 699.00

After being in the vintage guitar business for 40 something years, I’ve seen my share of Mossmans, but never ran into anything like this. Abalone bound body and peg head, stunning Brazilian rosewood. Not really sure how to date These, my guess is around 1990. There is a center seam reglue on the top and it appears to have had a neck reset,otherwise everything is clean and original, doesn’t really...

An uncommon Earl Scruggs model from Gibson. #85 of around 300 made. Excellent Used Condition with some finish-checking and finger-nail marks in the fingerboard in the first position. Keith D-Tuners, Shubb long-bar sliding capo. Custom engraved Presto Tailpiece and Armrest. Original Gibson Hard Case. Serial #4985 PRICE: 3995.00

This is the second time I’ve owned this guitar,, having taken it back in trade about five years ago. It has received the prerequisite neck reset. It’s obviously been played a great deal, but there are no cracks issues, or anything unoriginal to the guitar. Extremely rare to find an original arched hard case that comes with one of these. Not a great deal to add to this description, please reach...

This is of the cleanest almost unplayed examples of one of these. But there are several issues that are not obvious to the eye that need to be revealed. It plays extremely well, as it has had a neck reset. The bridge has been replaced with a a correct size replacement. Two of the braces towards the bottom of the guitar on the back have been replaced. There is a crack on either side suffered in...

A cute little blond tenor banjo by Weymann of Philadelphia. 10 1/2" Rim; 20 1/2" Scale. All straight and original. 17 Frets. Compact, solid, looks like new, A Little Knockout. Sad to say, no case for this gem, at this time. Serial #29430 YEAR: ca. 1920 PRICE: 450.00

An interesting Recording King Deluxe by The King Banjo Co. Laguna Beach, Ca. 4-22-97 by Greg Rich. Banjo built by Crafters of Tennessee. This banjo features the Tennessee 20 Flat-Head tone-ring. Modest Playing wear. Worn Gold-Plating. Some Hand-Engraved parts. Wayverly 2-Band Grover geared pegs.

Lange Langstile III banjo, dating from around 1920. Reproduction 5-String Neck by Intermountain Guitar and Banjo. Curly Maple Neck with Ebony Fingerboard. All-original pot. A Vega-style brass bracket-band on a 12" Maple rim. No metal tone-ring. Subtle Power.

IG&B Fretless Banjo, #834. Based on an authentic 1860's fretless banjo. 12" rim with Skin Head. Curly Maple with Ebony Fingerboard. Eagle brackets from the 1890's. Grover friction pegs.

An Original 14" Orpheum pot with a Reproduction 5-String Neck by Intermountain Guitar. 26 1/4" Scale. "Sounds Like a Whole Orchestra" Hard Case.

All-Original Orpheum Brass Band 5-String Banjo. 13" rim with Skin Head. A Nice Straight Banjo with good Neck and Playability. A Rare Find Indeed. Hard Case SERIAL: #8509 YEAR: 1919 PRICE: 2095.00

Fairbanks By Vega Co 6-String Guitar-Banjo, Whyte Laydie Model. Pretty Much All-Original Good Neck and Playability. TKL Hard Case

Quintissential Buegrass Dobro. Slotted head, Square Neck, Original Spun Cone. All-Straight and ready to play. Nice original Dobro hard case.

Regina short-scale tenor banjo possibly made by Lange or Puntolillo. 11 1/8" Rim. 17 Frets. Calf-Skin Head. All-Original. Good Playability. Would benefit from a good set of Planetary Geared Pegs. Original Hard Case.