Please identify this banjo/dobro hybrid

Subject: Please identify this banjo/dobro hybrid
From: Wesley S
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 01:20 PM

I've seen some unusual banjos in my day but not like this one. It's got 5 strings but the body and headstock remind me of a National guitar. But it's got dual F holes on each side of the upper bout. And idea who made it?


Zac Brown Band. Fox on the Run

Subject: RE: Please identify this banjo/dobro hybrid
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 02:30 PM

Looks a lot like this

Subject: RE: Please identify this banjo/dobro hybrid
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 02:35 PM

They're called dojos, but I can't find one exactly like it.

Subject: RE: Please identify this banjo/dobro hybrid
From: GUEST,999
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 02:42 PM

Wesley, try asking at

info (at) rjaylwardguitars (dot) co (dot) uk

I read somewhere that he made a few in the 1990s.

Subject: RE: Please identify this banjo/dobro hybrid
From: GUEST,Big Al Whittle
Date: 07 Nov 12 - 03:15 PM

Doesn't Pete Skinner (occasional mudcatter and Ian Gartside Band) play something a bit similar?

Subject: RE: Please identify this banjo/dobro hybrid
From: Wesley S
Date: 08 Nov 12 - 03:58 PM

Refreshing