The Deering Vega White Lotus 5-String Banjo offers players a lighter weight banjo with a full rich tone at an affordable price point. Weighing in at only 8 pounds and featuring the newly patented Deering white oak rim design, this American white oak banjo has the bright tone, crisp and clear note distinction, power, and sustain formerly only seen in banjos with metallic tone rings.
Having heard a vintage guitar of white oak years ago, Greg Deering decided to experiment with a white oak rim and neck for a banjo to see how the tone of this unique tone wood translated to a banjo.
Surprisingly, the result is a banjo with an almost metallic resonance without a tone ring. Why? American white oak is noted for a heavy, straight-grained texture; hard, tough, very stiff and strong. It is these key qualities of white oak wood that imbue this banjo with strong fundamental notes and a series of overtones that imitate a bell metal tone ring without the additional weight characteristic of this classic banjo component. Now the banjo player can have the much desired lighter weight banjo with “tone ring” power.
Alongside the patented white oak rim, Deering White Lotus 5-String Banjo features include a white oak neck and resonator accented with white binding, a Midnight Maple fingerboard and peghead overlay, new lotus flower inspired inlays, the Eagle Series style flange, Deering’s comfortable neck shape with the easily recognizable peghead profile and and a sparkling glossy finish.
DETAILS:
- White Oak neck
- Midnight Maple fingerboard.
- Original Lotus Flower engraved inlays.
- White binding.
- Slender Deering neck shape.
- 22 nickel-silver frets.
- Fully adjustable 2-way truss rod.
- Deering planetary banjo tuners.
- Deering geared 5th-string tuner.
- Gloss finish.
- Rim: 11-inch three-ply White Oak.
- Deering brass notched tension hoop.
- 11-inch frosted top medium crown head.
- 24 round hooks and 1/4-inch hex nuts.
- 24 bracket shoes.
- Eagle 2-piece flange.
- Slender shaped armrest.
- Nickel-plated hardware.
- Deering True Tone tailpiece.
- 5/8-inch Deering Smile Maple/Ebony top bridge.
- White Oak resonator.
- White binding.
- Straight inside sidewalls.
- Gloss finish.
- Neck width at the nut: 1-1/4 inches.
- Scale length, nut to bridge: 26-1/4 inches.
- Resonator diameter: 13-7/8 inches.
- Rim diameter: 11 inches.
- Overall instrument length: 38 inches.
- Weight: approx. 8 lbs.
- Hardshell case included.
