$ 3,199.99

Condition (see photos): Virtually no fret ware. Resonator has some wood checking that is apparent when you shine it under bright light. This RB-250 comes with a high-quality case that somebody wrote "The Gibson" on. However, it is not an original Gibson case.

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Original price was: $ 5,899.99.Current price is: $ 5,494.99.

This 1997 Gibson RB 4 Walnut Five-String Resonator Banjo is in excellent condition. It has a Flying-Eagle inlay and comes with a new Steve Huber bridge and head, and It was set up at the Huber Banjo factory in Nashville, Tennessee.

$ 6,499.99

This banjo is in excellent condition with a curly maple neck and resonator and all-original nickel hardware. It’s an exceptionally good sounding banjo as is typical with Greg Rich-era instruments.  

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Original price was: $ 1,299.99.Current price is: $ 899.99.

This Carlin model was the first to be issued; it was the result of a meeting between Bob and Gold Tone president Wayne Rogers at the 2004 IBMA Fan Fest. All of the BC-350 features and dimensions are per Mr. Carlin's specifications (arrived at after several trips by Bob to the Gold Tone plant) and include a twelve-inch three-ply maple pot with an innovative dowel-stick/coordinator rod, a rolled brass tone ring, maple neck with scooped ebony fretboard, planetary-gear tuning machines, No Knot tailpiece and "hot-dog" armrest.

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Original price was: $ 799.99.Current price is: $ 699.99.

The CC-Banjitar was our first banjo guitar and its popularity remains strong due its unsurpassed combination of great build quality, valued features and low price.

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Original price was: $ 1,199.99.Current price is: $ 699.99.

Once a staple in early twentieth-century banjo orchestras and clubs, the cello banjo disappeared by 1930. Gold Tone has brought it back, collaborating with string wizard Marcy Marxer to develop the CEB-4 cello banjo.

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Original price was: $ 949.99.Current price is: $ 649.99.

The Gold Tone BG-150F brings the beautiful appearance of the tremendous pre-WWII banjos to a new, lower price point. This banjo offers the player the lovely hearts-and-flowers fretboard inlay and the fully-bound neck and fourteen-inch resonator of the Gold Tone BG-250F combined with lightweight playing comfort (made possible by installing a quarter-inch brass-rod tone ring rather than the nearly three-pound bell brass ring in the BG-250F).

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Original price was: $ 799.99.Current price is: $ 499.99.

The CC-100R plus is a newbie player's dream come true.

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Original price was: $ 629.99.Current price is: $ 449.99.

The CC-50RP adds a full-walled resonator and high quality planetary-gear tuning machines to offer a value-packed first Bluegrass banjo for thousands more.

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Original price was: $ 878.99.Current price is: $ 494.99.

The Goodtime Six was not designed to replace the guitar but rather to complement it. It allows guitarists to play what they already know with unimaginably creative results.  

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Original price was: $ 399.99.Current price is: $ 299.99.

The Dirty 30s Series sits at the perfect crossroads of classic sound and historic design.

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