The first banjo I ever played was also my first banjo building project: a disassembled and damaged Framus long neck I saved from the junk pile back in the mid-90s. Rebuilding and learning to play that Framus brought an unexpected amount of peace that I wanted to sustain, so I became an avid student of Scruggs and frailing style banjo playing as well as a committed tinkerer and collector of banjos and banjo parts. 

Over the years I continued to experiment with franken-banjos, then rim making, neck shaping, and finally building my first full banjo in 2014, largely because I wanted a tubaphone and couldn't afford to buy one. I've been making a few banjos a year since then. As a full-time researcher by trade, a husband, and a father of two, banjo making is a part-time endeavor that never-the-less constitutes a major source of solace and creative expression in my life.  

I launched Lindale Banjos in 2020 as a means of supporting a banjo-making habit I have no desire to shake. I make banjos in batches of four or so representing my current interests in design, tone, and the incorporation of the many strange and interesting innovations I’ve learned from my fellow makers both current and past. 

— David Getman,
Lindale Banjos