The ukulele is done and will be delivered in mid-July when I visit him to go see the Manchester United vs. Barcelona football match!  Here's a few snappies of the uke.  My product photo skills are so [...]

The ukulele needed to be put to the side as my wife and I traveled to Japan to hike the Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage Trail then we had visitors to our little island.  Oh well. I'm [...]

Weather has been very wet and humid lately thus delaying the finishing process.  Spent considerable time reviewing various pore fill techniques balanced by what's available on the island (not much!). After positioning and taping off [...]

Sometimes it really pays to have the right tool.  But I get ahead of myself. Finally got into the shop after a couple weeks of being "under the weather".  I decided to create a new bridge [...]

Did some basic clean-up work, the most important being adding some accent to the hand-cut white mother-of-pearl inlay.  Inlay against Koa is "ok" and you can see how it looked in the previous post.  I [...]

The past couple of days have been spent finishing the neck.  Very tedious days making lots of dust. First, glued in the mother-of-pearl honu and, once set, polished it up. I'll be using a spoon [...]

Finally wrapped up the headstock "art".  Quite tricky to get the relief done right and the stew-mac router jig is almost a necessity.  It allows some very fine control.  Using ebony as headstock veneer is [...]

Today was all about headstocks.  I'm using peg tuners for the first time (all other uses I've used mini-tuners) and wanted a more elegant headstock design to reflect the smaller Concert and the tuners.  Came [...]