Bishline Banjos specializes in custom-made banjos.
You’ve put in the hard work to learn to play the banjo. Why not reward yourself with a banjo that is built specifically for you by master craftsman, Rob Bishline?
Whether you just want to add a few options to a current Bishline model, or collaborate with Rob to create a banjo from the ground up, you might be surprised at the affordability of a banjo that is uniquely yours.
Choose from our private stock of high grade tone woods and bindings. Custom fit your fingerboard width, radius and scale length that best fits your hands. Choose from other options such as laminated necks, tunneled fifth string necks, tone ring or woody. Plus decorative options such as inlay, plated or powder coated hardware, personalized truss rod covers wooden armrests and much more.
Browse this gallery of custom banjos that Rob has built. Perhaps it will inspire you to “Design your own Bishline”.
Contact us today for a quote on a banjo with the custom options you would like.
Natural maple with lacewood binding and neck laminate give this banjo it's character. The cross in the headstock was made from a piece of the customers wood that had sentimental value. The cross is outlined in pearl.
Abalone inlay against an ebony fingerboard is featured in this mahogany banjo. Other nice accents are the black j-hooks, black binding and a concentric abalone ring in the resonator.
This mahogany banjo was custom built for Steve Miller. It features a quilted mahogany resonator, flame maple binding and copper-veined powder coated hardware. The fingerboard is madagascar rosewood. It has a Bishline woody tone ring and a pick up installed in the bridge.
This walnut, custom banjo features highly engraved, gold-plated hardware and Orpheum style inlay. Gold Keith tuners were added and a gold Shubb sliding fifth string capo.
Natural maple with wood binding separated by a black/white/black strip. This banjo has a laminated neck and dragon fly inlay in the headstock and resonator.
This banjo is walnut with a tunneled fifth string neck. The headstock has the fifth string tuner on top and a Cardinal inlay. The fretboard features mahogany leaves with a pearl outline.
It's a Midnight Moon with these custom extras: gold Keith D tuners, gold hooks, gold-veined powder-coated hardware, gold Shubb sliding fifth string capo, lacewood armrest, and the customers original design marquetry inlay in resonator.
Custom-built for Ronnie in Georgia, this cremona-stained maple banjo features custom white/black/white binding. The fingerboard is a solid rosewood and the head cap is ebony. The headstock features Heirloom inlay. The tailpiece is Kershner.
This maple banjo is tobacco-stained and features a solid maple, book-matched, braced resonator. The neck is a speed neck with an extra wide profile. The rim is a block maple rim with a cocobolo resonator. The binding is flamed maple.
Here is one of our most popular models done in walnut with a burl walnut resonator, Koa binding with a small brown strip separating the binding and the wood. The hoop, flange, head , armrest and tuners are black.
This exotic wood banjo features highly figured cocobolo resonator and headstock back. The binding is flame maple and covers the neck, resonator and headstock. Some of the hardware is powder coated black.
This custom mahogany banjo has a figured mahogany resonator, flame maple binding and a headstock inly designed by the customer to honor his Irish roots and his wife.
This custom Walnut Heirloom features an mother of pearl and abalone trout jumping on the headstock. The fretboard features scalloped diamonds instead of dots.
This banjo was built to compliment a customers Danny Barnes resonator banjo. It features an old growth maple rim with a Bishline/Barnes woody ring and a scooped fingerboard.
Natural maple and koa wood binding. This variation of our Limited Series Blonde Autumn features a duck inlaid with leaves for the customer who makes duck calls.
