greenscoe
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A couple of weeks ago, the cold weather forced me into the kitchen to apply the purfling and binding to my cherry tenor
A few drops of a sauce containing Turmeric left unnoticed on the worksurface produced some nasty stains on the uke back. My attempts to remove the stains using various household cleaning products made matters worse: the solution was to use a wood dye. The result is that my tenor uke now looks rather more like rosewood. However I think it looks fine.
The neck is laminated/builtup with Tulipwood (Yellow Poplar in USA). The decoration is spalted beech trimmed with walnut and the purfling is maple.
Moral of the story: in cold weather take care with heat/hot sources/sauces!
A few drops of a sauce containing Turmeric left unnoticed on the worksurface produced some nasty stains on the uke back. My attempts to remove the stains using various household cleaning products made matters worse: the solution was to use a wood dye. The result is that my tenor uke now looks rather more like rosewood. However I think it looks fine.
The neck is laminated/builtup with Tulipwood (Yellow Poplar in USA). The decoration is spalted beech trimmed with walnut and the purfling is maple.
Moral of the story: in cold weather take care with heat/hot sources/sauces!