Timbuck
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Nice job...where will the bridge position be.?
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Graham Greenbag
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Nice looking instruments. Unless I’m mistaken you have markers at the 5th, 7th and 10th; the others are just a bit of fancy. It’s hard to make out but I think that the (more important) side markers are in the right place.
mikeyb2
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Well spotted Graham, the mistake was originally putting 2 dots at the 8th instead of the 7th, so I ended up just adding a single dot to the 7th.. Fortunately, the recipient of one never even noticed!
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If I figured things right it will be about 3 inches in from the tail, on an 8 inch pot. Using a 17" scale. I am not going with the headstock shape shown in the drawing.
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I am building an other experimental Bass'nBari flipper from laminated baltic birch plywood. This picture of the top and inside that will be smoothly craved when both sides of the arch top are done. The tops will be slightly 9º offset to match the necks. This gives more thumb room between the necks as pictured on the old one.
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Back in the building saddle after taking some time off to work on other projects. My third attempt at an arm bevel on my super tenor. I just wasn't content with how the first two looked. This time I chose to use Maple to contrast the Rosewood bindings and to match the bridge and fretboard. We'll see how it looks in a few hours.
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Now this is better. Much better. It only took 3 attempts and several months of foot dragging to figure out a solution. I also like the look of the Maple bevel with the Maple fretboard and bridge much more than the previous Rosewood attempts.
sequoia
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Nice job and an interesting bevel. Maybe you are not done yet, but I would round the corners on the sound hole and fretboard.
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Still some work to go, but not far now.
Recent UBass. My first. I built a baritone body and used neck and electronics from MGB guitars. The instrument was a request from a friend. I had no idea how to execute such a beast so purchased the neck and electronics "kit" to append to my bari body in black limba.
(as a relative newcomer to building (~17 ukes) I almost made a critical mistake in the MGB-bari interface. Initially, I had noted that the MGB neck scale was a perfect match for the target baritone instrument scale, and I was proceeding with building the same body I had built once previously. However, for once, I actually was rechecking things along the way and realized the MGB neck had 12 frets vs the 14-fret neck baritone body I had been contemplating!!! Thankfully, I figured that out just in time to move the (already-glued) bridge patch toward the tail block and cut the five fan braces to match. With the electronics, the final position of the bridge worked out just fine. Disaster averted for once.)
(as a relative newcomer to building (~17 ukes) I almost made a critical mistake in the MGB-bari interface. Initially, I had noted that the MGB neck scale was a perfect match for the target baritone instrument scale, and I was proceeding with building the same body I had built once previously. However, for once, I actually was rechecking things along the way and realized the MGB neck had 12 frets vs the 14-fret neck baritone body I had been contemplating!!!
Thankfully, I figured that out just in time to move the (already-glued) bridge patch toward the tail block and cut the five fan braces to match. With the electronics, the final position of the bridge worked out just fine. Disaster averted for once.)Attachments
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In my short time building ukes, I've concentrated on two body styles: "Favilla-esque" in concert size and "Ditson-esque" in both concert and tenor. (My baritones largely reflect a Scott Antes pattern purchased from Elderly.) Both examples shown here in Tasmanian Blackwood. Some day I may refine my skills enough to actually take on a soprano. None to date.
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Here is my latest tenor I'm just finishing . It has a African mahogany top , honduras sides and neck, figured Sapele top, and a Rosewood bridge and fingerboard. This is my second tenor with lattice bracing I'm looking forward to stringing it up!
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I really like your inlay designs. You are just down the road from me. We should get together some time.
yes! that would be wonderful.
This uke was a bit of a flop soundwise, so I decided to have a go at turning it into a 4 string (steel) mandolin. (last pic as originally set up)
First I set it up with a tailpiece and used the original bridge. Sound was wonderful but intonation was terribly off. I planned to just remove bridge but things didn't work out that way, so top came off and new one was made. That offered the opportunity to improve the neck block area and the new top had a now more appropriate bracing.
New top is glued on (no pics, not finished) and it was set up again to play with a floating bridge with proper intonation, and it was dynamite. Also learned at this point that it needed a second neck bolt with all that extra tension.
First I set it up with a tailpiece and used the original bridge. Sound was wonderful but intonation was terribly off. I planned to just remove bridge but things didn't work out that way, so top came off and new one was made. That offered the opportunity to improve the neck block area and the new top had a now more appropriate bracing.
New top is glued on (no pics, not finished) and it was set up again to play with a floating bridge with proper intonation, and it was dynamite. Also learned at this point that it needed a second neck bolt with all that extra tension.
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I’m pretty durn proud of my first instrument. Had lots of fun making it and learned heaps. I started over three years ago. I find it beautiful, flaws and all, and think it sounds lovely. (I did slip in a travel uke this last autumn. Rushed to get it ready for traveling, and technically finished first, partly because of all the things I had figured out making this one. https://www.forum.ukuleleundergroun...-ultimate-travel-ukulele.157234/#post-2383837)
Baritone. Port Orford cedar top, sapele b/s, lots of desert ironwood accents, granadio FB, walnut bridge w/accent, partridgewood binding, maple strips all over. The neck wood is uncertain. I was told it was western red cedar, but no cedar smell. My friend Beau thought it might be Douglas fir, and it might be.
Beau is Beau Hannam, who helped me work through some of the tricky bits. I’m lucky to have him in my town. I had plenty of other help from lurking on this forum, YouTube, tools borrowed and advice accepted, plus a friend who has been building alongside me, now fallen slightly behind. I worked in about four different workshops and the driveway outside my apartment.
Tools and jigs are in place, wood obsessively stockpiled, ideas are brimming and I have started the next instrument, hoping to have fun making more. Thanks to you folks here for the ongoing inspiration!
Baritone. Port Orford cedar top, sapele b/s, lots of desert ironwood accents, granadio FB, walnut bridge w/accent, partridgewood binding, maple strips all over. The neck wood is uncertain. I was told it was western red cedar, but no cedar smell. My friend Beau thought it might be Douglas fir, and it might be.
Beau is Beau Hannam, who helped me work through some of the tricky bits. I’m lucky to have him in my town. I had plenty of other help from lurking on this forum, YouTube, tools borrowed and advice accepted, plus a friend who has been building alongside me, now fallen slightly behind. I worked in about four different workshops and the driveway outside my apartment.
Tools and jigs are in place, wood obsessively stockpiled, ideas are brimming and I have started the next instrument, hoping to have fun making more. Thanks to you folks here for the ongoing inspiration!
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sequoia
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You definitely know your way around a wood shop. Nice first effort. My only comment is those fret ends look awfully sharp. Maybe a little rounding?
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