H
Hippie Dribble
Guest
hi gang
well, I raided eugenie's studio yesterday morning and thought I'd have a bash at handpainting a ukulele. It was a cheapo plywood laminate mahalo. I just sanded back the top and the headstock, applied a coat of white primer and set to work.
Here's what happened...
I went for a folk art kind of thing...used my favourite colour orange as the background, then drew a brown and gold vine to border the face, and continued that theme on the headplate. It's a little rough but I'm pretty happy with it for an initial attempt.
The uke was fitted with geared tuners, so all that's left to do now is fill in the holes on the back of the headstock with some wood putty, layer a couple of coats of varnish to seal the paint, then put in some new friction tuners and string it up. The action was also a tad high so I'm just gonna file back the saddle a smidgeon.
I'll put a couple more pics when she's set to go. Thanks for taking a look folks!
well, I raided eugenie's studio yesterday morning and thought I'd have a bash at handpainting a ukulele. It was a cheapo plywood laminate mahalo. I just sanded back the top and the headstock, applied a coat of white primer and set to work.
Here's what happened...
I went for a folk art kind of thing...used my favourite colour orange as the background, then drew a brown and gold vine to border the face, and continued that theme on the headplate. It's a little rough but I'm pretty happy with it for an initial attempt.
The uke was fitted with geared tuners, so all that's left to do now is fill in the holes on the back of the headstock with some wood putty, layer a couple of coats of varnish to seal the paint, then put in some new friction tuners and string it up. The action was also a tad high so I'm just gonna file back the saddle a smidgeon.
I'll put a couple more pics when she's set to go. Thanks for taking a look folks!