Description
Excellent Condition • SN: 1064
Mixed Black Nickel & Gold Hdwe
Engraved Hardware • Massif Resonator
Highly Figured Crotch Walnut
Marquetry Purflings
11″ Radiused F.B.
This 2015 Prucha Spirit Custom Presentation Walnut banjo is almost like a time capsule. This banjo has very little sign of prior ownership.
This is one of the first of the Prucha Spirit banjo models to come into the United States.
The Spirit peghead design has Abalone JPrucha logo at top, an elaborate flourish in the center of the ebony overlay in peghead and very colorful abalone truss rod cover with “Spirit” engraved.
Bone nut. The Gabon Ebony fingerboard has an 11″ radius and delicate, elaborate Abalone “Spirit” inlays. Ivoroid bindings along fingerboard and around top and back edge of resonator. Tucked under the ivoroid bindings are colorful wooden marquetry strips of purfling seen along sides of the neck, and sides of the resonator. Top and back edge of resonator show multiple Ivoroid bindings with extra black line. Very beautiful, highly-figured “crotch” Walnut solid “Massif” resonator. Prucha’s “Massif” resonator is made using two book-matched blocks of wood that are turned on a lathe, and then hand-scraped and voiced. The figure is hard to describe, best to check out the photos.
Ebony heelcap. The special hardware is elaborately hand-engraved plated with mixed black-nickel and gold plating. The main 4 tuners are gold H&K, 5th string tuner is gold Schaller, all tuners have matching Ivoroid buttons. Engraving is seen almost everywhere on the hardware, and is especially nice to see the continual “wreath” pattern all around the tone ring. As with all Pruchas, the banjo is made with a perfect fit of neck, perfect fit of resonator to pot, and perfect fit of neck heel into resonator.
This Banjo sounds great. Huge “presence”. Comes with good hard case
