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Anatomy of a Screw-up – Router Bites
While routing the binding channel, the router "jumped" and decided to take a bite along the top of the ukulele. Fortunately, the gouges were limited to about 1/8" in from the binding channel and about [...]
Boxing Day (well, month)
Boxing up the ukulele is a great time. First needed to add and shape the sound board bracing and tone bars. And of course creating and glueing in the label! I put the back on [...]
Sides, Back and a new Kerfing “jig”
Got some quality time in a past couple of day. Got to try out my homemade Temperature Controller for bending sides. Created a sandwich of wetted koa sides wrapped in paper towels (to soak up [...]
Soundboard Rosette
This was tricky. First I created a jig that allowed me to shape the ends of the curved mother-of-pearl to mate to each other seamlessly. Then decided to add multiple layers of purfling (the white [...]
Headstock Inlay Success!
A good day today. Always had challenges routing out small channels for inlay using the "etch and chalk" method. A friend suggested using Whiteout and Micron pens (I chose red as a nice contrast to [...]
Lacewood Neck
Prepped the neck over the past 2 days. I liked how the recent Concert uke's neck came out so decided to replicate it for this Tenor. One difference is in the use of Lacewood for [...]
Tenor Talk…Musings on my Tenor Build
Here we go again. Hot on the heels of the "Concert Chronicles" (well, a few months anyway), I'm finally building a tenor ukulele replacing my very first build. Long over due. I decided to start [...]