UkeforJC
Well-known member
Dear all,
My #3 build is nearly done. It is a hana lima concert ukulele. (my previous two builds are Stew-Mac saprano, so this build is much more difficult. )
I hope you won't might that I post my building journal here. It might be very very long, so please bear with me.
I want to thank all of you for helping, and advising me on this forum.
Without you guys, I can't possibly finish this build.
I will be posting many pictures in this journal. Mainly to get your insight on how I did things. I believe that I must have made many many ridiculous mistakes in many of the processes.
Please do point it out, when you see something terribly wrong. So I won't make the same mistake again in my next build.
I purchased most of the materials form Hana Lima for this build.
The materials are: Western red cedar top, Walnut back and sides, Sapele neck, WRC braces/tone bars/patches, Bubinga fret board and bridge.. I also got some solid Englemann spruce lining.
I started building this uke in March. It took me a long time to get this far, mainly because I took a long time researching how to do each step, and buying the tools.
SO, here we go.....
most of the materials are shown in this picture.
I made a very simple shooting board to shoot the joints of the top and back boards.
I then used the tape method to join the top and back. I was hesitating whether I should trust the tape to do its job in joining,but since I saw Allen was doing it. It is good enough to convince me that it is a good method.
After the top and back were joined, I first work on the top. I cut the uke outline, then moved on to sound hole. I like the honu shape, so I decided to try it out. I first used my dremel to drill many many holes and then used a x-acto knife to cut off the wood to the sea turtle shape.
My thought is...cedar are so soft. I almost broke the top during the carving. I probably won't do this again, or I should have glued a sound hole patch....oh well..
My #3 build is nearly done. It is a hana lima concert ukulele. (my previous two builds are Stew-Mac saprano, so this build is much more difficult. )
I hope you won't might that I post my building journal here. It might be very very long, so please bear with me.
I want to thank all of you for helping, and advising me on this forum.
Without you guys, I can't possibly finish this build.
I will be posting many pictures in this journal. Mainly to get your insight on how I did things. I believe that I must have made many many ridiculous mistakes in many of the processes.
Please do point it out, when you see something terribly wrong. So I won't make the same mistake again in my next build.
I purchased most of the materials form Hana Lima for this build.
The materials are: Western red cedar top, Walnut back and sides, Sapele neck, WRC braces/tone bars/patches, Bubinga fret board and bridge.. I also got some solid Englemann spruce lining.
I started building this uke in March. It took me a long time to get this far, mainly because I took a long time researching how to do each step, and buying the tools.
SO, here we go.....
most of the materials are shown in this picture.
I made a very simple shooting board to shoot the joints of the top and back boards.
I then used the tape method to join the top and back. I was hesitating whether I should trust the tape to do its job in joining,but since I saw Allen was doing it. It is good enough to convince me that it is a good method.
After the top and back were joined, I first work on the top. I cut the uke outline, then moved on to sound hole. I like the honu shape, so I decided to try it out. I first used my dremel to drill many many holes and then used a x-acto knife to cut off the wood to the sea turtle shape.
My thought is...cedar are so soft. I almost broke the top during the carving. I probably won't do this again, or I should have glued a sound hole patch....oh well..
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