Well, I did purchase a maimed S. S. Stewart banjo on e-Bay a few years ago. The neck was in much worse shape than I thought; it had been planned off so that a 5-string banjo was now a 4-string banjo. Then to add insult to injury, someone tried to convert it back to a 5-string banjo. I had a talented friend make a new neck and that was the banjo I was playing at this year's Getaway.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble