Nice full day in the shop!.  Focused on finishing the soundboard.  First, thickness sanded the top to about 0.070″ (1.75mm) and added a registration dowel to make top to body alignment easier.  I made a number of enharmonic bars, tone bars and the sound hole and bridge patches out of spruce.  Decided to redo the patches out of Koa for strength and appliance (if anyone looks into the hole!).

Glued up the sound hole patch then the bridge patch using the go-bar deck.  Cut out the sound hole, corrected any imperfections in the sound hole by sanding then softened all the patch edges using sandpaper.  Trimmed out the outline of the ukulele on the bandsaw and now it’s starting to look, well, like an ukulele!

Shaped the 5/16″ x 1/4″ enharmonic bars with a nice scallop about 1 3/4″ from the ends.  My drum sander has just the right curvature for the scallop.  Using a razor saw, cut the tops off the circular sound hole patch so the bars can align nicely.  After glueing up in the go-bar deck, rounded the tops of the bars via sanding and did general cleanup on all glued areas.

Finally, shaped the 5/16″ x 3/16″ tone bars.  These get placed about 1/4 away from the waist enharmonic bar at an angle that “looks nice”.  I choose 15 deg because I could easily cut a 15 deg edge on one end of the tone bars.  It will “look nice” near the waist bar but really makes no difference.  Pride in workmanship an all that 🙂  Used my fret saw setup to cleanly cut away a bit of the underside of the tone bars going over the bridge patch.  It needs to be a tight fit so thought the accuracy of my fret saw jig would do the trick.  Probably overkill but it came out perfect.