Actually, New Uke Day was this past Saturday. On my way home from my Kapalakiko workshop on Saturday in San Jose, I stopped at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto to have a strap button installed on a Kamaka tenor I had bought there in July. While I was there, I fell for a Kamaka tenor 8-string (HF-38) and I ended up buying it. The clincher was that the ukulele's birthdate was July 27, 2011, two days after my birthday. The strings are still settling and I'm still acclimating to it (I already have a Lanikai 8-string, which I may now have to sell) but it sounds and feels great. I haven't had a chance to take photos yet, but here's a link to the photos of this ukulele that Gryphon had posted on its website. http://gryphonstrings.com/instpix/36907/36907.php