This 1926 Gibson TB-3 Mastertone, converted from its original tenor configuration to 5-string, gives you a genuine slice of Gibson's legendary jazz-age Mastertone lineage in a setup built for modern bluegrass picking. It's built around Gibson's Mastertone construction and sits right at the changeover point in tone ring design, sporting the newer archtop tone ring. Converting these vintage tenor pots to 5-string is a well-established, respected practice in the bluegrass world, since it puts a genuinely excellent pre-war Gibson tone chamber into a configuration players actually use, and a large share of surviving TB-3s from this era have gone through exactly this transformation. It's a serious tone instrument with real Gibson Mastertone pedigree, not just a modern banjo built to chase that sound.
Includes HSC.
