Hi,
I'm going to start my first ukulele may. By then, I'll have ordered all the (bare) wood I need, have bought the tuners and the strings, the fret wire, the glue, some plywood for the mold, and should have made a temporary bending iron. I'll have bought and read the hama lima book. I'll have access to a workshop with most of the needed tools. I'm not really an experimented woodworker, but I already know how to use some of the tools and will have some help for the remaining one.
Can someone help me making an estimation of how time it would take to make two soprano ukulele from scratch in those conditions ? Since it is a first one, I'll make it simple. I may add a simple wooden binding (no rope nor abalone), and a rosette (also very simple), but nothing more. (I'll make two so I can select the best parts each time and make a good one, then make a beater with all the remaining parts)
My first estimation is about 5 afternoon in the workshop with all the tools (5*4 hours), and about the same time to glue everything together, sand, and finish. Let say about 50 hours.
Does is seems a good estimation ?
Thanks,
John.
I'm going to start my first ukulele may. By then, I'll have ordered all the (bare) wood I need, have bought the tuners and the strings, the fret wire, the glue, some plywood for the mold, and should have made a temporary bending iron. I'll have bought and read the hama lima book. I'll have access to a workshop with most of the needed tools. I'm not really an experimented woodworker, but I already know how to use some of the tools and will have some help for the remaining one.
Can someone help me making an estimation of how time it would take to make two soprano ukulele from scratch in those conditions ? Since it is a first one, I'll make it simple. I may add a simple wooden binding (no rope nor abalone), and a rosette (also very simple), but nothing more. (I'll make two so I can select the best parts each time and make a good one, then make a beater with all the remaining parts)
My first estimation is about 5 afternoon in the workshop with all the tools (5*4 hours), and about the same time to glue everything together, sand, and finish. Let say about 50 hours.
Does is seems a good estimation ?
Thanks,
John.