Beautiful..
I would hope my next uke to be a Dominator uke.. I'm now waiting for another William King Concert by the end of Dec, so I gotta save up the budget again.. I'm not in a rush at all, so this may work out. Do you do Concert scale Dom?
I have my own story regarding building.. I HAD that desire a couple of years ago, so I ordered a Tenor uke kit from Hanalima.. and Asa Chock was kind enough to include 2 bookmatched pairs of nice semi-curly Koa for top and back for a sweet deal. Also, I figured I ought to buy one of their Grizzly Soprano kits to get my feet wet at the same time. Also, Gotoh tuners, a heat blanket for bending... I had high expectations.
The Grizzly kit is pre-built so assembly involves gluing on the neck, fretboard, bridge, finish, etc. Well one look at the plywood fretboard, and I knew that had to go. I dug out a piece of Cherry and surface planed it to the right thickness, measure and cut the slots for the frets, and proceed with assembly... had my son do all the sanding prep etc and finish with cheap brush-on furniture lacquer.
Well, as the pic tells, I hand cut the fret slots crooked..
finished .. pretty sad, but not too bad, good for when my 2 nieces come over.. this is the uke they can play/bash around with. Even sounds decent with the junk ghs strings. and it stays sort-of in tune pretty well for the cheap tuners included in the kit.
Needless to say, I gave up on the idea of building that Tenor kit, it's gonna take me too much time and in the end, I'll probably goof it up and ruin good Koa.. so the kit sits in a box.