DOUBLE Hoooooolllllllllly Shhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiiittt. Yes you are a Fender man, these are classic's. A humbucker and some steel slide guitars in the back ground as well.
Your advise needed Mitch. I was in a customers house the other day and he offered me a BANJO. Its in good nick with a hard case never heard of the brand "ARIA" before and I have never played one before. So i sat down and played a bit of dueling banjo's to him and is wife "sortof". He wants $380 for it but will I really ever play it ? 
Yepp definitely prefer Fenders over anything else.. that stems from the fact that most of my fav players play them.
The steel guitar in the background is a 4 neck Guyatone that belongs to my father, he's had that for about 50 years!(he's a pedal steel guitar player).
I havent had a lot to do with Banjo's, my father has a real nice Fender one. I've dabbled with them a little bit but cant do too much on them unless they are tuned to normal guitar tuning, usually they are tuned to an open tuning (usually open G). Im not too familiar with ARIA brand guitars etc, i always thought they were a cheap brand but i could be wrong?? i guess that something you have to ask yourself.. is it something i will use... or willing to learn to play. But generally if its in good nick, plays and sounds good and is solid and well made is what i look for in any instrument.
