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| Custom order only. This model includes a tunneled 5th-string and a radius fingerboard.
Nechville has always wanted to offer the best, well-thought-out banjos available. The Phantom is an example of modern engineering applied to the 5-string banjo.
Tom Nechville has has improved upon an old idea that never became mainstream, and that is the tunneled 5th string. The reason for this design is not all aesthetic. The absence of the 5th peg on the neck makes changing left hand positions easier, especially when using the thumb on the 5th string. Since a deep hole in the neck is not used for the 5th string mounting hole, the neck is actually stiffer and lends more solidly to the tone.
The radiused neck is slightly wider, but conforms to the hand with a slim, easy feel; the radius allows strength combined with easy playability. Often no inlays are installed on the Phantom, allowing freedom of expression in any key and allowing the beauty of nature's wood grain patterns to adorn the neck.
The Walnut Phantom is made from select black walnut, with curly-maple binding, and exotic cocobolo fingerboard. Not only is cocobolo beautiful, but stable during climatic changes. A copper-colored helimount frame is standard on this model.
Note: Our banjos are individually inspected, set up and tuned by the Banjo.com staff in Georgia. We are banjo players, so we set them up the way we want to play them! Each banjo is in tune when we carefully pack it for shipment. Climate conditions and travel will affect the tuning, so it may need to be fine-tuned before playing. |
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Features
- Curly Maple Bound Burl Walnut resonator
- Radiused walnut neck, bound in maple
- Stable Cocobolo fingerboard with large visible black side dots
- Unique Geometric style Cocobolo capped 5 String peghead.
- Nickel 14:1 right angle tuners
- Copper colored Heli-Mount frame with 40 hole Megaphonic tone ring with Cyclotronic system and 3 ply maple rim
- Deluxe hardshell case
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