The banjo is equipped with the "modern" features Vega adopted in the early 1960s including an adjustable truss rod in the neck and dual coordinator rods in the rim, allowing very easy set up compared to the old style dowel stick. The sunburst finished neck has a bound, dot inlaid fingerboard and geared Grover tuners. This basic but effective Vega mounts the plain brass "Little Wonder" tone ring on a laminated maple rim with standard hardware. Vega and Martin built the most desired instruments during the "great folk scare" as some remember it, and in the early '60s had long dealer waiting lists for their more popular instruments. This model was the simplest Vega design of the period but still built in their old Boston factory to a very high standard with their typically excellent workmanship. This is a nicely original early 1960s "Folk Era" Vega Folk Wonder banjo, a plain looking but great-sounding openback 5-string "folk" banjo. Vega FW-5 Folk Wonder Model 5 String Banjo (1963), made in Boston, Mass., serial # A-10901, brown lacquer finish, laminated maple neck and rim ebony fingerboard, black chipboard case.
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