I’m not much of a musician myself, and my skills (such as they are) have been somewhat in decline over the years as I spend more of my time in the shop building more instruments and very little of it practicing. Some folks who have either been visiting here or who have bought instruments from me have been kind enough to let me post links to their videos.
This one is a Vega for which I only built a custom neck:
Casey Murray ordered a custom banjo and wrote this tune on it. Click here to view.
John Depew used banjo #125 on tracks 1, 7 and 9 of his album at the Bandcamp link below:
https://johndepew.bandcamp.com/album/john-depew
The owner of a C scale banjo commissioned an A scale neck for a vintage pot, and kindly sent links to videos of both of those and a couple of in-stock instruments.
Custom neck banjo: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1r6t1R8eeNDix0aBR9DkkOWeSlsJgpaFw/view?usp=drivesdk
Cello banjo at the farm: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p3x9dX95B4Hy8jHWdnKxl8yq7K095rDO/view?usp=drivesdk
#196 at the farm (walnut WL / electric tonering) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p4UuIRPKPScQJUolFUHymkUBfsPgKus8/view?usp=drivesdk
#91 (C-scale tuned to A) https://drive.google.com/file/d/1p3F9V4i_diItOfzKsEOn3emxeNFdYnz1/view?usp=drivesdk
This is the first dreadnought guitar I’ve built. It was a custom order.
This is a recording that was sent to me by a customer who was the first person who asked me to build a banjo optimized for classic style playing, with no back angle on the neck, 1/4″ high action and mandolin fret wire. This banjo is shown at the bottom of the page in this link. https://hoytbanjos.com/2025/02/01/january-banjos-and-an-a-style-octave-mandolin/
This is a sound sample of the wood tubaphone banjo (#371) I built in February 2025, with nylon strings.
https://quickshare.samsungcloud.com/7hVgNPfGeAyZ
Larry Lee playing guitar #12:
Here are more videos of Stephen Cary, still playing the custom C scale banjo he ordered back in 2018.
Here is banjo #380 being played by its owner in the Czech Republic.