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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;all_fakes, post: 9439319, member: 55&quot;]Others have reasonable comments - I&#039;ll add that Bacon was a very good name for older instruments, banjos and mandolins - 1920 or such - but by the 1960&#039;s, not so much.&nbsp; </p><p>Banjos are much more an assemblage of hardware than guitars - you wouldn&#039;t buy a guitar, and then take it all apart into a hundred pieces - but with a banjo, you can unscrew stuff, exchange and add parts, put the neck from one onto the body of another, switch tone-rings - quite easily.</p><p>So here the wood back - the resonator - is probably just a press- fit, and could easily be pried off, and you&#039;ll have an open-back banjo. And it could certainly be an addition; it does look like the cut-out has been altered or enlarged.</p><p>If trying to remove it, be careful - it could be that whoever was altering it has glued it on - which would not be at all normal with a stock resonator, which would come as a tight press-fit, but an altered one might not fit right as a press-on, so they could have glued it instead.&nbsp; Personally, I&#039;d hate to buy a banjo and find the resonator had been glued on. Mine are all either press-fit, or a screw in the center of the resonator back (which yours obviously does not have).&nbsp; Some would have brackets to attach the resonator to the body - again, not on yours.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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