Stagg BJM30G 6-string Guitar Banjo

Really like my guitar banjo, especially after tweeking it by using allens wrench on truss rod and taking a little off both top and bottom of bridge. Used a flat metal wide finger nail file for bridge and made new grooves for strings with small kitchen knife. You might want to have your dealer do all of this for you if you feel a little aprehensive. Any way it made a world of difference in the playability and I even like the way it changed

the sound. The strings sustain more and it doesn't resonate so much. It improved everything I didn't like about it before tweeking it.

Nice crossover if you play guitar and want that banjo sound for certain tunes.

Good price range. Nice looking, and I don't have to learn how to play the banjo to get the banjo sound I like to hear and play when I want to!

My Stagg BJM30G 6-string Guitar Banjo has an excellent folksy sound, that can be achieved without having to learn an entirely new instrument.

Plays like a guitar - sounds like a banjo.

Good tone.

Loud enough to work with ambient mike. This is a 6 string (guitar headstock and tuning) "bluegrass" banjo. ( I know, I know its not really a banjo , but thats what Stagg call it so I'm sticking with it)

Resonator is alloy on heavy mahogany base.

30 flat bracket hooks to hold resonator down.

11" Remo white head

6 string maple and ebony bridge. ( Ensure you put it in the right place!)

Brass machine heads, open with pearly keys.

Armrest is Nickel plated brass.

22 fret rosewood fretboard with mother of pearl inlaid markers ( I don't think its M-o-P its prob called pearlish or some such)

Banjo-heads hate them! ( This is a good point as well)

Banjo head is REMO and of good quality.

Too me the action is high and heavy, but a friend who plays conventional banjo says that its typical for the instrument.

You won't be able to practice quietly!