Inksplosive AL
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Smiley is my 3rd ukulele in as many weeks. I watch as many videos on YouTube I could to see how they sound and everyone sounded decent. Of course I expect they were all setup and tweaked with new strings. Of course mine buzzed very bad on the first and second fret of the G and C string due to a very high third fret.
Blueprinting my new smiley ukulele, he came pretty bad even for a $38 instrument. Imagine buying this for your kid and just giving it to them. I can see this little buzzing yellow guy collecting dust if the kid has any ear for music. As is I went a little crazy on the tape job on the fret board but figured it was good practice.
If it were a more expensive instrument I most likely wouldn't be playing luthier and paying for ones services instead. Seeing as it was only $38 and would still look cool as s** as a wall decoration I figured I have rebuilt car engines and worked on motorcycles, I tattoo and pierce human skin why not try a bit of backyard instrument repair.
After watching a few YouTube videos I am at now at this point with my third fret looking very flat. The bad part is a straight edge will still rock slightly so the call is stop and round it off hoping the string tension will pull the neck forward slightly or take off a little more ever so slightly. The edges of the frets are very sharp on the bottom as well so I will be addressing this before moving onto the action. I have a set of D'Addario t2 titanium soprano strings waiting.
You don't want to see what I'm going to use for a nut file. :drool:
Wish me luck and send good joo-joo my way!
~Al
Blueprinting my new smiley ukulele, he came pretty bad even for a $38 instrument. Imagine buying this for your kid and just giving it to them. I can see this little buzzing yellow guy collecting dust if the kid has any ear for music. As is I went a little crazy on the tape job on the fret board but figured it was good practice.
If it were a more expensive instrument I most likely wouldn't be playing luthier and paying for ones services instead. Seeing as it was only $38 and would still look cool as s** as a wall decoration I figured I have rebuilt car engines and worked on motorcycles, I tattoo and pierce human skin why not try a bit of backyard instrument repair.
After watching a few YouTube videos I am at now at this point with my third fret looking very flat. The bad part is a straight edge will still rock slightly so the call is stop and round it off hoping the string tension will pull the neck forward slightly or take off a little more ever so slightly. The edges of the frets are very sharp on the bottom as well so I will be addressing this before moving onto the action. I have a set of D'Addario t2 titanium soprano strings waiting.
You don't want to see what I'm going to use for a nut file. :drool:
Wish me luck and send good joo-joo my way!
~Al
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