Five string banjo. The body is made from two face to face (almost square) Arturo Fuente cigar boxes. Set on the diagonal and slightly offset with the sound holes in the back box. It was meant to be tuned a full octave below the standard open G tuning but in fact sounds better tuned in open A. Because of the low tuning the high string tuner does not have to be at the fifth fret. The neck and fret board are cherry and walnut.
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Oh! I like that doubled boxes and the way you used them.