My First Ukulele

luthier · Jun 29, 2011

I built this one for my daughters. I applied the string-to-string distance of standard classical guitars to my design and found out it's way too crowded for a ukulele.

Acacia confusa for top, back, & sides
Ziricote fingerboard & head plate
Cedro neck

CAD layout

Head/fb arrangement

Spanish foot

Gluing dentellones to harmonic bars' ends

My little girl

luthier · Jun 29, 2011

A little more pics...

Honduran RW bridge

Better-than-nothing compensated nut

Sawed-off cheap classical tuning machine with handmade ebony buttons

I thought my classicals are small...

tonewood · Jun 29, 2011

Looks really nice. Really like that ziricote fretboard/and headplate.

mm stan · Jun 29, 2011

Aloha Luthier,
It is a beautiful uke and sounds so nice...love the melody of amazing grace..good job all the waya round...Happy strummings...MM Stan thanks for sharing...

ksquine · Jun 30, 2011

Very sweet uke. I really like that headstock design

ADD · Jun 30, 2011

Agree with Stan.

luthier · Jun 30, 2011

Thanks for those kind words. It's fun to build or play a ukulele.

ksquine · Jun 30, 2011

Is that a compensated nut? How did you figure how much compensation to add?

luthier · Jul 1, 2011

Good question. I didn't know how much I should use. I supposed lower tension and shorter scale of a ukulele would probably lead to more compensation than a classical guitar, so I pretty much use the same values.

Pondoro · Jul 4, 2011

Beautiful uke, beautiful little girl.

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