1978 Gibson RB-250 Mastertone 5 String Banjo 549
$2,000
Mahar's Vintage Guitars
No sales tax for customers outside California.
Here we have a Gibson Mastertone RB-250 banjo in very good condition.
The previous owner installed a really cool, non invasive, EMG pickup system. Also added were two Keith D Tuners. The final upgrade was a really nice Superior hardshell...
1980 Gibson RB-250 Mastertone
$1,595
Intermountain Guitar and Banjo
This Mastertone features Gibson's 1980 huge improvement in Banjo construction:
Instead of the multi-ply plywood rim they used for about 16 years previously, now the rims were 5-ply Maple.
Added to this was the Gibson Bell Bronze flathead tone-ring which in this case is a beefy nearly 5 lbs....
1993 Gibson RB-4
$2,995
Matt Umanov Guitars
The classicest Gibson Mastertone 5-string banjo ever, the RB-4, with design features dating back to the 1930s. This one from the early 1990s (can you believe that was over thirty years ago?) when Gibson decided to really get it right again, with all the wonderful features of the true pre-war...