Check out this uke

Ukecaster · Sep 30, 2018

Saw this one recently, a 6 stringer, tenor size, so I assume it was a uke. It was hanging on a wall in someone's home. I thought it looked cool, but was probably just a well beaten wallhanger. Boy, was it ever...check out that action! Yikes! As I look closer, I see only 8 frets to the body, very strange.

Croaky Keith · Sep 30, 2018

It's got a great, as in huge, action - obviously found in some junk, & taken home just as an art object.

Jerryc41 · Sep 30, 2018

Interesting. It must have been made as a wallhanger, as you suggested. On the other hand, maybe someone will tell us it's a stringoria, made in the jungles of Brazil by a now-extinct tribe. Boys had to make one as their entry into manhood. The better it looked, the less likely the boy's chance of being sacrificed to the Moon God at the next full moon. Or maybe it's just a wallhanger.

Joyful Uke · Sep 30, 2018

Jerryc41 said:
Interesting. It must have been made as a wallhanger, as you suggested. On the other hand, maybe someone will tell us it's a stringoria, made in the jungles of Brazil by a now-extinct tribe. Boys had to make one as their entry into manhood. The better it looked, the less likely the boy's chance of being sacrificed to the Moon God at the next full moon. Or maybe it's just a wallhanger.

The poor boy who made this one got sacrificed. Maybe to aNueNue Moon Bird instead of the Moon God though.
My fingers hurt at just the thought of the action on that one.

MopMan · Sep 30, 2018

Whatever it is, it is obviously trash for making music. It looks like you might even break the strings just by trying to fret them...

Ukecaster · Oct 1, 2018

Nice high action for slide? Yeah, it's a doblow

Xtradust · Oct 1, 2018

That’s kind of thing they sell in Tijuana at the border....with the blankets and piggy banks.

Jerryc41 · Oct 1, 2018

Xtradust said:
That’s kind of thing they sell in Tijuana at the border....with the blankets and piggy banks.

And it plays a tune?

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