LeVan banjos are made by hand here in the Northern Appalachians - one at a time and no two are exactly alike. Our primary practice is designing banjos for individual customers and each banjo I build is a prototype of that design. I’m not a mass-producer. When you commission a project you become part of the design process. As an industrial designer, I am very familiar with manufacturing, and have incorporated special features and hand work into our banjos that I know is not easily done in a factory or by mass production.
LeVan banjos are built from the ground up. It’s what’s called “vertical integration”; We don’t merely assemble them from parts purchased from other suppliers - We make most of the parts by hand in the shop and the designs are unique to us.
