Dan Gleibitz
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Build log: #2 - Time for a concert.
I planned to wait until next year before starting a new project, but I came down with builders' bug. I'm going to have a crack at a concert ukulele or four. Trying to apply what I learnt from #1, and working more carefully and methodically.
Why concert size? Because I want one, but have never even played one. Also because I discovered that while many guitar B&S sets are barely enough to squeeze a tenor uke TB&S out of, many are large enough to make two whole concerts, or 5 concert tops & backs and a set of sides.
I've scored some great bits of wood. Silver Wattle, Tasmanian Myrtle, Tassie Blackwood and a piece of Victorian Blackwood with a stunning ribbon pattern. It looks like a crumpled silk sheet. Pics another day. Necks will be Queensland Maple and Blackwood.
Today I finished drawing the plan and my wife taught me to cut templates with her laser cutter.
I planned to wait until next year before starting a new project, but I came down with builders' bug. I'm going to have a crack at a concert ukulele or four. Trying to apply what I learnt from #1, and working more carefully and methodically.
Why concert size? Because I want one, but have never even played one. Also because I discovered that while many guitar B&S sets are barely enough to squeeze a tenor uke TB&S out of, many are large enough to make two whole concerts, or 5 concert tops & backs and a set of sides.
I've scored some great bits of wood. Silver Wattle, Tasmanian Myrtle, Tassie Blackwood and a piece of Victorian Blackwood with a stunning ribbon pattern. It looks like a crumpled silk sheet. Pics another day. Necks will be Queensland Maple and Blackwood.
Today I finished drawing the plan and my wife taught me to cut templates with her laser cutter.
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