c.1910 Bacon Professional FF Special

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c.1910 Bacon Professional FF Special

Name: c.1910 Bacon Professional FF Special
Brand: BACON
SKU: 210000006356
Price: 3995.00 CAD
Availability: InStock

$3,995.00 CAD

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This Lange-built Bacon Professional FF Special features a 10-7/8”internal resonator rim, with wave soundholes, intricate marquetry, 24 brackets, and original Rogers skin head. The 5 string neck features a bound pearwood fretboard with intricate sea snail inlays and an engraved flowerpot on the headstock. The scale is 27-1/8”, and the nut width is 1-5/16”. The original frets play cleanly despite a bit of back-bow in the neck. We have the banjo set up with Aquila Nylgut strings, a ½” bridge and an action of 5/32” at the 12th fret, which frails nicely.

The banjo is in excellent condition and is original but for newer inlays on the back of the headstock and on the heel-cap.

Grained ivoroid ‘Forest Dale, VT’ plate, Bacon Professional, FF, and Special all stamped on to the neck stick. No serial number.

With modern hardshell case.

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