Washburn Improved 5100

 

 

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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

billsbanjos.com/washburn5100