Paddle Ukulele

I see potenial ukuleles everywhere I look. A friend gave an old child-sized canoe paddle to me, and I had to make it into a ukulele.

This uke features a 21 inch scale, and a zero fret. A wooden bowl serves as the resonator. The sound hole was cut with a forstner bit. The strings are angled through the headstock and then wound around the (admittedly unorthodox) upside down tuners.

It's tuned like a reentrant baritone ukulele (High D, G, B, E).

Once it was done, one particular song made a lot of sense to play on it...

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet!!!!

So I'm curious what was the build cost?

dofthesea said:

So I'm curious what was the build cost?

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Paddle: free!
Tuners: $5
Fret wire: $1
Fret board: $1
Strings: $4
Wooden Bowl: $1
Misc supplies: $3

Somewhere around $15.

Wow, what an inspired build! Beautiful. Nice tone, and nice presentation in the video. Thanks for sharing.

Cool. I always wanted a uke that could run the white water too lol.
Clever way to run the strings through like that

Very cool!!!