Cathy Fink

This custom project was fun and very stretching at the same time. Cathy Fink saw and played Dan Levenson's banjo at a festival a while back. She wanted something similar. She liked the Lady Swinging from the Moon on Dan's fingerboard.

Cathy has a strong background in Western Swing music. For the peghead inlay Cathy saw one of my designs of a Lady Reclining in the Moon. She asked, "Can you make that Lady playing the Banjo?". She also wanted the Lady to have on one Golden Slipper and for the other Slipper to have "slipped" off and fallen to the 5th fret.

Cathy knows what she wants and it was a great idea. After a while of doubting my abilities I decided to get on with the challenge. Well, it turned out nicely. Cathy loved the "Dreamy Girl lounging in the Moon playing the Banjo". We liked the design so much we are now working it into our logo.

The inlay work is described above. The banjo itself has a Glen Rose peghead, figured Maple neck with Purpleheart/Maple/Purpleheart veneers running up each side of the center strip, under the peghead and fingerboard. It has my standard style heel, a 25.5” scale, a double action truss-rod and a scalloped bone nut. Ebony fingerboard and peghead overlay. This custom model comes with a 12” Tony Pass Birch rim that is 1/2" thick and 3" overall height, adorned with nickel shoes & hooks, closed ball end nuts and custom shoe screws. 5-star tuning pegs, pearl side dots, No-knot tailpiece and a Renaissance head finish off the details. A TKL Professional Archtop case protects it all

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