George Banjos

George Banjos Tommy George and Christian Stanfield make the finest hand-crafted banjos and banjo ukuleles in the South. www.georgebanjos.com Commitment. Excellence.

Attention to detail. George banjos are built by hand from the finest woods available: curly maple, mahogany, walnut, ebony, wenge and rosewood, to name just a few. We combine over fifty years of building experience with a love for the craft to create individual instruments that stand apart from the crowd of standard models currently produced by factories and small prodution shops today. Each Georg

e banjo is unique, hand crafted from beginning to end in Somerville, Tennessee. Whether your pleasure is an open-backed frailer fit for festival jams, a bluegrass resonator that rings true for country miles or an elegant banjo ukulele, George Banjos can custom build an instrument to meet your needs. Tommy George also specializes in building Golden Era five-string necks for tenor banjo conversions. Gibson, Orpheum, Paramount, Bacon & Day - see our Gallery for photos of necks Tommy has hand crafted to fit pre-war tenor banjo pots. The highest level of appointments are available, including heel carving, bindings, backstraps, inlay, etc. George Banjos offers a full line of repair services for acoustic instruments, including banjos, guitars, mandolins, fiddles, dobros, dulcimers and just about anything else made of wood and steel. Services include re-fretting, neck resets, and repaired cracks and braces.

The meeting of two iconic pop culture banjos! Kevin Enoch with his Creature Of The Black Lagoon banjo, and George Banjos...
11/09/2019

The meeting of two iconic pop culture banjos! Kevin Enoch with his Creature Of The Black Lagoon banjo, and George Banjos’ Christian Stanfield with the Bat-jo.

This picture is from the 2019 Banjo Gathering, which was held in Norfolk, Virginia in late October of this year.

03/21/2019

Got a nice little feature on an Israeli television program, check it out!

Two new banjo ukes, headed to Elderly Instruments in Michigan.
05/07/2015

Two new banjo ukes, headed to Elderly Instruments in Michigan.

Here's Rebecca Holbrook Music with two custom instruments we built for her a couple years back.  On the left is a banjo ...
04/01/2015

Here's Rebecca Holbrook Music with two custom instruments we built for her a couple years back. On the left is a banjo uke, and on the right an A-scale banjo, both made of cherry, zebra wood and spalted maple. She has a full size banjo that we made to match, but that one didn't make it into this particular photo. You should check out her tunes, she writes some really great songs!

03/30/2015
Just finished this banjo ukulele, which is now on its way to a little sailor girl in Maine.  The serial number stamped o...
03/18/2015

Just finished this banjo ukulele, which is now on its way to a little sailor girl in Maine. The serial number stamped on the dowel stick is her official US sailing number.

Backstrap.
03/11/2015

Backstrap.

Happy Friday, everybody!  Get out there & make some noise this weekend...
02/20/2015

Happy Friday, everybody! Get out there & make some noise this weekend...

Here's Raymond McLain of the McLain Family Band, pickin' on Vera's custom Deco banjo in the parking lot of the Centennia...
02/18/2015

Here's Raymond McLain of the McLain Family Band, pickin' on Vera's custom Deco banjo in the parking lot of the Centennial Festival of Riverboats in Louisville KY last fall. The shady characters you see over his shoulder are our buddies the Steel City Jug Slammers of Birmingham, AL - and hey, they just won the annual Battle of the Jugbands in Minnesota this past week!

Happy belated holidays from all of us here at George Banjos!
01/05/2015

Happy belated holidays from all of us here at George Banjos!

Check out Vera playing a newly converted pre-war Supertone banjo!  This one is available now on the website for $1,250, ...
09/15/2014

Check out Vera playing a newly converted pre-war Supertone banjo! This one is available now on the website for $1,250, wow, what a great deal! http://youtu.be/cZJ6MgwRB0I

via YouTube Capture

George Gruhn turned me loose in his private collection yesterday; here I am with one of Uncle Dave Mason's three Gibson ...
08/03/2014

George Gruhn turned me loose in his private collection yesterday; here I am with one of Uncle Dave Mason's three Gibson banjos. This is the one that went to String Bean after Uncle Dave passed.

Here's Vera with her custom "Golden Girl" banjo, in a great b&w shot by Chris Barwick.  Butterfly dress by Trashy Diva, ...
06/30/2014

Here's Vera with her custom "Golden Girl" banjo, in a great b&w shot by Chris Barwick. Butterfly dress by Trashy Diva, in case anybody was curious...

The sublimely sexy - I mean, who are we kidding - the overtly, in-your-face sexy Vera Victoria of the Side Street Steppe...
06/16/2014

The sublimely sexy - I mean, who are we kidding - the overtly, in-your-face sexy Vera Victoria of the Side Street Steppers with her equally inspiring custom Deco banjo. Both she and this banjo will be back on the deck at Central BBQ on Central Avenue from 6-8:30pm on Thursday this week.

One of these days we're gonna build an upright bass banjo like this for Ben Jammin' Walsh of the Side Street Steppers.  ...
06/13/2014

One of these days we're gonna build an upright bass banjo like this for Ben Jammin' Walsh of the Side Street Steppers. Wait for it...

Here's a Buffalo Nickel engraved with the likeness of JD Wilkes (Dirt Daubers/Legendary Shack Shakers) that I've inlaid ...
06/12/2014

Here's a Buffalo Nickel engraved with the likeness of JD Wilkes (Dirt Daubers/Legendary Shack Shakers) that I've inlaid in the peghead of a banjo we are making for him. And you should see the awesome sideshow banner he pained for the Side Street Steppers in return...

The Commercial Appeal featured a Side Street Steppers video from our Fifth Anniversary Show today, and in it you can see...
06/09/2014

The Commercial Appeal featured a Side Street Steppers video from our Fifth Anniversary Show today, and in it you can see Vera playing her custom George Deco banjo.
http://www.commercialappeal.com/videos/detail/side-street-steppers-anniversary-show/

The vintage band Side Street Steppers celebrated their five year anniversary, by playing music from the 20's and 30's at Otherlands coffee house Saturday night.

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