Bacon and Day- Dowel Hardware
- Categories
- Audio Visual Collections > Banjo Construction Photograph Archive
- Subject
- Banjo Construction Photographic Collection
- Musical instruments
- Creator
- Bennett, Bud, 1963-
- Type
- digital image
- Coverage - Temporal
- 2016
- Identifier
- Bacon and Day- Dowel Hardware9.jpg
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Radford University. McConnell Library. Archives & Special Collections.
- Description
- The neck dowel is held in place at two points as it passes through the rim. On the tailpiece end the end pin holds it in place, on the neck end, the neck brace holds it in place. In this photograph we see the three pieces of the neck brace in place and holding the neck against the rim. The metal rod passes through a hole in the dowel and fits in the two small indentations in the bracket in this photo. The screw in the bracket is used to exert pressure on the rim and helps hold the neck in place. The Bacon Banjo Company was in Groton, Connecticut and was owned and operated by Fred Bacon and David L. Day. The company was started by Fred Bacon in 1906 in Forest Dale, Vermont and later moved to Groton, Connecticut. David L. Day joined the company in 1922. The company was destroyed by a hurricane in 1938 and the business was later sold to Gretsch.
- Rights
- Copyright is held by Radford University. If you would like to use the materials please contact the Archives & Special Collections at archives@radford.edu. The images are available for free personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that proper citation is used (e.g. Banjo Construction Photograph Collection, Appalachian Collection, McConnell Library, Radford University, Radford, VA). Any commercial use or unauthorized reproduction of these photographs, without the written permission of the copyright owner, is strictly prohibited. Please refer to the McConnell Library Archives and Special Collections website for more information.
