Jon W,

No value judgment in this at all. Please, don't think that at all 'cause it's not intended that way fer sure.I'm just a bit of a nit picker. But I do believe that your wood-topped instrument, even with a 5-string banjo's neck, would ,by definition, actually be a GUITAR. Even the "PANJO" I made from a bedpan would, technically, be a guitar and not a banjo.

A guitar being: A box wityh strings.(basic definition)

A banjo is: A drum with strings.(basic definition)

Does this seem right to you folks out there?? Or am I wrong about this?

Art