Attention Fans of the Chicago Cubs!

This is a custom banjo built for a dedicated Cubs fan.  My customer started the ball rolling on this project last season when the cubs were looking good.  He actually got permission from the Cubs organization to use a couple of their trademarked logos as inlays!  His efforts and ideas paid off and I was able to create this banjo for him.  The inlays were something new for me, as I used wood that I dyed for the red and blue colors.  I mixed in a little pearl as a white accent, and they came out very nice.  The banjo is an 11" walnut banjo with an Ashborn style flange and a tonering section of jatoba.  Jatoba is also used on the bottom of the pot and as a strip down the neck.  I made the tension hoop myself and it complements the rest of the brass hardware.  The customer supplied me with a Fiberskyn head printed with a picture from Wrigley Field.  I also made a custom walnut and birdseye maple armrest for the pot.  This banjo sounds great in the hands of its new owner!