Concert uke - Quilt maple + spruce top.
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Lexxy
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Wow. So pretty.
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Aloha Rob,
Nice spruce top and wood grain back...Wow!! thanks for sharing...MM Stan
Nice spruce top and wood grain back...Wow!! thanks for sharing...MM Stan
tattwo
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Very nice work! The top looks nice and thin. Very nice Spruce.
Will there be a sound sample?
Will there be a sound sample?
Steve vanPelt
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Looks great! That maple is very nice. Is that spruce in the back ground too? 
Gonna be a busy summer.
Gonna be a busy summer.Thanks folks - I can't do a sound sample as the customer came over as quick as he could to snaffle this uke back home with him!
Yes the spruce top is as thin as I dared, which paid off in terms of sound - it's up there with the best I've done to date..
The background to the pics is a lot of spruce I bagged recently - it was bring sold off as brace material for steel string guitars. It's offcuts from the split wedges formed for resawing into guitar soundboards. It's perfectly quartered and about a third of it is bearclaw - stay tuned!!
Yes the spruce top is as thin as I dared, which paid off in terms of sound - it's up there with the best I've done to date..
The background to the pics is a lot of spruce I bagged recently - it was bring sold off as brace material for steel string guitars. It's offcuts from the split wedges formed for resawing into guitar soundboards. It's perfectly quartered and about a third of it is bearclaw - stay tuned!!
Timbuck
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I like the bridge.......I like the Uke...Great stuff Rob...Or as us "Yorkshire lads" say ...."Ey That'le doo"
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I have recently become enamored at the special sound of these spruce/maple instruments.
Lovely uke, wish I could hear and play.
Lovely uke, wish I could hear and play.
Michael Smith
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Nice job on this uke. I too find the notes on the spruce tops sound just a little more clear, almost like the koa tops sound just a very little muddy in comparison. If I had to describe it I would say the spruce tops sound a little more like a tuning fork for a given note. It could be I'm just getting all I should from the Koa or that I have run load tools all my life and can't hear.
Ken Middleton
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It looks stunning, Rob. Very stylish. How does it sound?
Hi Ken, put it this way - Dibbs' face lit up from the first note he played on it!
It's built like a beefed-up soprano and that's hopefully how it sounds, punchy, but with much more sustain and presence. It's also very loud, which seems to be a common theme with my softwood-topped ukes..
It's built like a beefed-up soprano and that's hopefully how it sounds, punchy, but with much more sustain and presence. It's also very loud, which seems to be a common theme with my softwood-topped ukes..
seoulsister
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Very Beautiful wood! love it!
It really is stunning to look at and Rob's description of the sound is pretty accurate. I'll do a recording before too long and post it here as well as on the Cosmos.
I now have 3 concerts that are all great in their own way yet sound very different from each other; A G-String, a Howlett (Vita) and this one.
Ken Middleton
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I look forward to that Ian.
UkeforJC
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wow...wow...wow...
The uke sounds so sweet and the music you guys played is so beautiful.
The uke sounds so sweet and the music you guys played is so beautiful.
Vic D
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Love it! I'm betting it sounds as beautiful as it looks.
UkeforJC
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oopss...sorry about that. I didn't know.
But this makes the music even more impressive.
^_^
UkeforJC
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Hey! Rob,
I am wondering what wood did you use for the neck?
Thanks
I am wondering what wood did you use for the neck?
Thanks
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