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Hunting
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Village of Baoma, Sierra Leone
Serial # 8435, also stamped 5100 on dowel.
5-layer backstrap to 5th fret.
Scale length 27 1/4.
Head dia. = 10 3/4 in.
24 hooks
Iron tone ring is suspended on steel spikes approx. 1/2 in. above wooden rim.
Elaborate inlays throughout. Large torch on back of peghead.
Carved heel and colored wood laminae, binding, and marquetry.
Bill's Banjos website has a writeup on this model at
