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Thank you John! Good to hear from you Sir! I received an email today from Adam asking how I was doing and things at the Brown House. I have two Prewar Fat Handle nickel plated Techs at Chris Evatt's and a Y4 Super Speed, which will complete my razor-ing to sixteen early main stream production variants to 1955. I will post photographs once they are in, along with some in case user directions from 1955. My 1927 Gibson conversion Mastertone 5-string banjo has taken on a life of its own and the majority of my spare time outside of mowing three acres. Like razors, it enjoys a rather large following and many nuances to make playing one more enjoyable. It is now completely set-up and sounds fantastic, with extremely loud harmonics, a strong bass response, and good sustain. The coordinator rods were adjusted and the head tension uniformly set with a drum dial. I also changed the bridge to one made by a banjo bridge maker in Ashville, Tim Purcell. It too is a vintage effort of course, and as we know, the hunt is as much of the fun as anything else. Locating a set of prewar National Oval Eight finger picks along with a vintage national thumb pick for a reasonable price was indeed a challenge, and now things sound the part. Thankfully I have another banjo player at church, so that will not make learning a new instrument a vacuum. In the 1970's, there was no U-Tube, so I will not perpetuate my early bad habits. God Bless! Tony Brown RN mgbbrown