Gold Tone OB-2AT Archtop - Vintage Bowtie Banjo with Archtop Ring
Gold Tone OB-2AT Archtop - Vintage Bowtie with Archtop Tone Ring
OB-2AT Archtop Replica of Gibson RB-250 Mastertone Archtop with Bowtie Inlay
The Gold Tone OB-2AT vintage RB-250 Gibson Mastertone replica with bowtie inlay features a powerful 40 hole sand cast brass arch top tone ring similar to the 1920's orginal/ Also a 3 ply maple rim and one piece flange, the standard for Gibson Prewar banjos.
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SPECIAL FEATURES ON THE OB-2AT INCLUDED HERE
- GOTOH TUNERS - The OB-2AT comes with high quality GOTOH tuners standard!
- 5th string Capo Spikes INSTALLED FREE with the Gold Tone OB-2AT
- Option to add the Zero Glide Nut INSTALLED FREE on the OB-2AT. (You must choose that option when ordering)
- High Quality Snuffy Smith Premium Banjo Bridge Now installed and included FREE on the OB-2AT ($35 value)
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Gold Tone OB-2AT Pro Banjo Set Up at BanjoTeacher.com
The Gold Tone OB-2AT is specially set up. The set up includes a custom professional neck fit to the rim. The proper professionally done custom neck fit is huge on banjos. We also can install 5th string capo spikes at no charge. Just specify which ones in checkout.
The OB-2AT by Gold Tone comes with lifetime warranty which is TRANSFERABLE if you sell the banjo later too.
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Gold Tone Representative, Marc Horowitz:
"In 1963, I was a junior in high school. I was consumed then (as now) with all things banjo. I was playing a Seeger-style longneck Bacon banjo, but I'd recently become aware that what I needed for Bluegrass was a MASTERTONE. In those days, there was no vintage craze; the banjos from the 1930s (only thirty years before) were just, well used banjos. Some players had one, some didn't. Many of the big Bluegrass names (Scruggs, Reno, Crowe etc.) had pre-war banjos, but some others (Alan Shelton for example) played a contemporary bowtie banjo.
I decided that THAT'S what I would get. My father liberated some of my bar mitzvah money and off I went to Roger Sprung�s place to buy a bowtie Mastertone. I was over the moon! I practiced hard and made the rapid progress you achieve when you acquire a professional-grade instrument. While this was going on, the mystique of the pre-war Mastertones was coming onto every picker's radar. Suddenly, EVERYONE wanted a nineteen-thirties banjo! The race was on, and I fell for the legend. When a friend offered to sell me his 1926 RB-5, I made it happen; I sold the bowtie.
Fast forward to around ten years ago. I was musing one day about all of the banjos that had passed through my hands over the previous four decades. I fondly remembered that first Mastertone bowtie I had bought new in 1963. I wondered what I would think of one of those now, if I found one. I'd learned a lot about banjo setup over the past forty years. Maybe I could get one of these and optimized it for today�s styles of playing.
It's worth mentioning that while a pre-war banjo was thirty to forty years old back in the sixties, a bowtie Mastertone from '63 is now SIXTY years old! I located a mint condition '63 and bought it. After I finished setting it up it was... WOW. I still have it. I found more examples and bought, fixed up and resold them to eager buyers. Today, a clean early sixties bowtie brings five to six thousand dollars, and they sell quickly. These are great banjos.
Since the success of Gold Tone�s OB-3 Twanger, we were kicking around ideas for the next tribute banjo when the bowtie banjos of 1960 to mid-1964 were brought up. This was when the bowtie was at its peak of quality. A unique nineteen-hole flathead tone ring (versus the previous twenty-hole version) was used during this time. The banjos were built in Kalamazoo by some of the same people that worked there in the thirties, and the tone rings were still cast by the same foundry that made them back before The War. A full thickness rim and nickel-plated hardware were still used as well.
With those specs in mind, we set about creating a worthy modern evocation of this great old banjo: the Gold Tone OB-2 Bowtie. The feature set closely adheres to the original banjo: mahogany neck and maple resonator, a beautiful golden sunburst finish and even a nineteen-hole flathead tone ring, now available in Archtop. Updated features include superb quality Gotoh machine heads, the renowned Snuffy Smith bridge, a Presto-style tailpiece and dual coordinator rods for precise adjustment.
From our hands to yours, the value is superb and the tone and playability are amazing. Enjoy!"
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List of FREE Items Included with this Banjo
FREE Professional Banjo Set up 
FREE Official Gold Tone TKL Hard Shell Case- FREE 5th String Capo Spikes
- Free Zero Glide Nut Option ($75 value) You must specify when ordering below that you want The Zero Glide Installed
- Snuffy Smith High Quality Premium Banjo Bridge FREE ($35 value)
5 Free Ross Nickerson Banjo Instruction DVDs - FREE LIFETIME PLATINUM Lesson Site Access
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Zero Glide Nut
Gold Tone does not install the Zero Glide Nut standard on the OB-3 but you can add it FREE as an option below.
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