rickmorgan2003
Well-known member
Hi all,
My daughter inspired me. She wanted an electric uke that was like a mini Les Paul guitar with active humbuckers and everything. Well, it turned out so good I had a few people ask me if I was going to make more. I am prototyping a double cutaway, semi-hollow body archtop uke that I might make available if there was a demand. Specs below.
Let me know what you all think.
The finished purple uke is my daughters which gives you an idea of the over all look and finish. The selector switch gets in the way up on the cutaway and the 4 knob vol/tone traditional to LPs was a bit of overkill so the new ones will have a master volume and tone with the selector switch next to them.
Specs:
Style: Double cutaway semi-hollowbody archtop steel string Ukulele
Size Tenor long neck
Body and Neck: Black Walnut. Neck angle set at -2.5 deg
Top: Flame maple or other figured maple
Fingerboard: Persimmon or sycamore 12" radius
Pickups: Dual custom humbuckers, hand wound by me. Neck 6.2k bridge 7k ohms both with wood bobbins, no covers.
2 minipots with 3 way selector and .022uf paper in oil capacitors.
Bridge : TBA
Finish counter dyed burst colours with 8-10 coats of nitrocelluse lacquer buffed to high gloss.
My daughter inspired me. She wanted an electric uke that was like a mini Les Paul guitar with active humbuckers and everything. Well, it turned out so good I had a few people ask me if I was going to make more. I am prototyping a double cutaway, semi-hollow body archtop uke that I might make available if there was a demand. Specs below.
Let me know what you all think.
The finished purple uke is my daughters which gives you an idea of the over all look and finish. The selector switch gets in the way up on the cutaway and the 4 knob vol/tone traditional to LPs was a bit of overkill so the new ones will have a master volume and tone with the selector switch next to them.
Specs:
Style: Double cutaway semi-hollowbody archtop steel string Ukulele
Size Tenor long neck
Body and Neck: Black Walnut. Neck angle set at -2.5 deg
Top: Flame maple or other figured maple
Fingerboard: Persimmon or sycamore 12" radius
Pickups: Dual custom humbuckers, hand wound by me. Neck 6.2k bridge 7k ohms both with wood bobbins, no covers.
2 minipots with 3 way selector and .022uf paper in oil capacitors.
Bridge : TBA
Finish counter dyed burst colours with 8-10 coats of nitrocelluse lacquer buffed to high gloss.