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2010 Ome Millennium Zen 5-String Open Back
Decked out from tuners to tail with gorgeous MOP inlays, this 2010 Ome Millennium Zen is a stunning open back banjo. The planets, moons, and stars are etched in exquisite detail, with 4:1 Planetary tuners to boot and the hardware is here upgraded in engraved Nickel. This Ome was further customized with a radiused fretboard for player comfort. It weighs in at a relatively trim 9lbs 4oz, and the setup is dialed in for sweet and easy playability.
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SOLD Read moreScale Length 26.25 in Nut Width 1.188 in String Spacing 1.625 in Woods Skin - Fiber, Maple Add to Compare2005 Ome Juniper Mahogany Banjo
This is a wonderful Ome Juniper Open Back Banjo. An Old-Time 5 string featuring a 12″ body, rolled brass tone ring, mahogany rim with Tortoise binding, hard tailpiece, double rim rods and geared Ivoroid tuners. The Juniper is crafted with an Ebony fingerboard with gorgeous Abalone Inlays and the Renaissance head echos the inlay them.
This Ome Juniper offers up a traditional Old-Time sound with that wonderful sweet and warm Ome sound. The attack is very pleasing with a round edge to it. This one is in excellent condition and ready for your next jam session.
I started out playing guitar, two or three years earlier than the banjo, but I didn’t get very far. A poor teacher and a poor guitar ended my first attempt. That was when I lived in Kentucky. As a boy, I’d grown up around bluegrass but it wasn’t until later, when I moved to Colorado in 1956, that I really got into playing music.
In this lifetime there were two things that inspired me to build banjos, besides playing. First, I grew up intrigued by building with metal and wood. My mother was in the antique business in Kentucky and I would go looking for treasures of the past with her. In the process, I became interested in antique firearms to the extent that by the time I turned 14, I was a professional gun trader. It was during those years in the trading business that I fell in love with the use of wood and metal as an art form and began learning vintage design techniques with those materials.