Ha, you beat me to it, nongdam!!
I had intended to preempt any further questioning of this ebay auction earlier, but anyway, here it is. Yes, this is my auction. I didn't post it for sale here yet, because I am actually a little embarrassed to be selling it already. I am not sure if anyone can relate
but I have gone uke crazy lately and purchased three very nice ukes in the last month. Then, I realized that I can't exactly afford to purchase three ukes in a month, so one has to go. This particular Pono is indeed the one that
nongdam was trying to trade recently. I purchased it directly from him. I cleaned it up a bit, put new strings on it, and cleaned up the case too. Got some real nice photos using my light tent, and decided it was probably the easiest of the three to sell. I marked it up from what I paid for ebay, particularly to make sure that I can cover shipping and ebay fees, and still have a little negotiating room (I listed it as 'buy-it-now
or best offer'). I am willing to entertain offers from the UU forum, and can certainly give a better price to UU members than ebay, since I can avoid final value fees.
So, there it is. My apologies to nongdam for trying to flip this uke. I feel bad, because it is a beautiful instrument and nongdam was great to deal with. I really am not trying to hustle a quick buck here either, just trying to cover my arse, which would be toast if my wife found out how much I've spent on ukes lately!! Anyway, it looks great, sounds great, and has real nice action. Nongdam had high tension strings on it, which I didn't like too much for my style of playing, so I switched them out to the Worth Browns. I haven’t played it much, but enough to know it is pretty sweet. If anyone is interested, please feel free to contact me. Again, I’m really just trying to recover my initial investment.
Also, I am not sure if I need to post some photos here, as per UU rules, since I didn't initially list the uke on the forum, but I don't mind doing so. It might just have to wait until tonight or tomorrow, since I do not have a photo with my UU user name. Moderator??