From: joewncw@yahoo.com   
      
   From Acoustic Guitar magazine:   
      
   Seeger's banjo dates from 1955, when he got the idea of making a banjo   
   neck/fingerboard from a single piece of lignum vitae, a wood so dense   
   it sinks in water. He bought the wood himself, sketched a neck outline   
   on it, and with the help of the D'Angelico shop, turned it into a   
   working neck (with three frets more than the average banjo) and   
   mounted it on a Vega Tubaphone pot.   
      
   Joe Cline   
   Charlotte   
      
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