Banjos On Salt Spring

With two pickups and 20 strings in two levels this instrument is my redesign of the Concord guitar based " Mohan Veena".
I have replaced the original wood arch top guitar design with a deep German Silver body with both layers of strings coming to a two level biscuit bridge on a 10.5" Quartermain spun cone in a deep sound well.
The upper strings consist of three melody strings tuned DAD and five drone strings tuned dDDAA The lower sympathetic strings are tuned DCDEFGGAABCD are are tuned from tuners along the side of the neck.
The sitar sound sympathetic strings run across a slotted brass tipping plate bridge that rests in a  lower tunnel slot in the ebony biscuit bridge. It is set screw adjustable to get the sitar sound. 
The connection of upper playing strings and lower sympathetics is direct through their shared biscuit bridge.
The neck runs the full length of the instrument without a joint or dowel socket where the neck meets the body. I carve them from a full length two piece blank of Bolivian rosewood, book matched if possible.  I attribute their long sustain to this unique construction as there is no glue line or joint to interrupt the vibration of the whole length of the instrument.
Tuners can be Korean or Gotoh.
Pickups are both Lace. The upper string level has a Lace Humbucker suspended on four spring loaded machine screws directly under the upper strings.
The lower strings have a Lace Dobro sensor (square neck)

PRICE $5800