Throughout the world there are small manufacturing firms, maybe a luthier who has expanded the operation and taken on some staff, maybe a number of craftsmen who have got together in some form of co-operative. However it started these manufacturers usually make very high quality instruments even if the Ukulele is not the firms main outputEnoch Banjos
Based in Beltsville, Maryland, and founded in 1990 by Kevin Enoch the firm now employs 3 people producing standard and custom 5 string open backed Banjos. In 2015 they added a Concert scale Banjo Ukulele to the standard catalog based upon the base banjo, (the Tradesman), model. Open backed again with an 8 inch drum and 14 inch scale the do offer levels of customisation on the fretboard inlays, heel carving, choice of neck wood and even the option to be fretless