Instrument type
5-String Mountain Banjo
Year built
2004
Body
Swamp Ash and Osage Orange drum
Soundboard
Beetlekill Ponderosa
Neck
Swamp Ash
Fretboard
Wormy Oak
Wristwrest
Beetlekill Ponderosa with Dinosaur Bone inlaid into natural beetle grooves
Nut
Osage Orange
Bridge
Osage Orange 4-foot bridge
Tuners
Planetary tuners with Osage Orange tuning buttons.
Headstock details
Carved forked with Beetlekill Ponderosa Truss Rod Cover, AS inlay in Dinosaur Bone
Resonator
Osage Orange and Beetlkill Ponderosa
Resonator Inlay
Mountain Pine Beetle (the cause of the Beetlekill of the Ponderosa) in Oak burl and Walnut burl
Tailpiece
Ash, Osage Orange, Ebony on pins
Heel
Osage orange and beetle kill ponderosa pine with crushed dinosaur bone inlaid into natural beetle grooves
Scale
27″
Fingerboard inlay
Natural worm-holes as fret position markers, filled with Dinosaur Bone
