jbem
Member
Hello UU! This is really my first post since joining (apart from introductions). I hope this is the right section for this post - mods please move if it is not - I wasn't too sure where to put it.
Anyways, I own a beautiful tenor ukulele that I bought off an old timer. He did not really know anything about it because his wife bought it at a garage sale for one of their grand children years earlier and he didn't end up playing it. It has what appears to be a solid spruce top, with solid koa sides and back. The back is nice an arched and has a beautiful golden colour when the light hits it. It has possibly a koa or mahogany neck, with a rosewood fretboard with two strips of greenish coloured wood inlayed into it. The bridge is rosewood and the saddle and nut appear to be bone. The bridge has a very unique shape as does the headstock. The headstock has a koa veneer with two other kinds of wood inlayed into it. The binding on it is some kind of medium brown coloured wood. Overall it is very striking with the koa, unique headstock and bridge, and the other little details. It came in a non-descript old looking hard case.
It sounds sweet and has good volume. The action is good.
Any ideas as to what I've got here? I might be able to post some sound clips or video clips so you can have a listen to it too.
Here are some pictures
Anyways, I own a beautiful tenor ukulele that I bought off an old timer. He did not really know anything about it because his wife bought it at a garage sale for one of their grand children years earlier and he didn't end up playing it. It has what appears to be a solid spruce top, with solid koa sides and back. The back is nice an arched and has a beautiful golden colour when the light hits it. It has possibly a koa or mahogany neck, with a rosewood fretboard with two strips of greenish coloured wood inlayed into it. The bridge is rosewood and the saddle and nut appear to be bone. The bridge has a very unique shape as does the headstock. The headstock has a koa veneer with two other kinds of wood inlayed into it. The binding on it is some kind of medium brown coloured wood. Overall it is very striking with the koa, unique headstock and bridge, and the other little details. It came in a non-descript old looking hard case.
It sounds sweet and has good volume. The action is good.
Any ideas as to what I've got here? I might be able to post some sound clips or video clips so you can have a listen to it too.
Here are some pictures
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