Hi, I'm a new member here, and I'm starting out on my first uke building adventure after having most of my experience in building classical and flamenco guitars. My interest in uke's is provoked by a commission, and I don't have much a priori sense of the instrument. (This is what happened to me with classical guitars as well - I started out seeing myself as mainly interested in steel strings.)
I'd like to build a couple of practice instruments to get a sense of how far to push the build-at-the-point-of-collapse envelope, before embarking on fancy flamed koa instrument the customer wants, and I'm wondering what to saw up for practice. The woodpile is offering up some quartersawn cherry, and I was wondering if this would be a reasonable direction or if there is something about this choice that would send me in the wrong direction. (Other choices are padauk, and some mahogany but I don't think the mahogany is going to be that well quartered.)
I'd like to build a couple of practice instruments to get a sense of how far to push the build-at-the-point-of-collapse envelope, before embarking on fancy flamed koa instrument the customer wants, and I'm wondering what to saw up for practice. The woodpile is offering up some quartersawn cherry, and I was wondering if this would be a reasonable direction or if there is something about this choice that would send me in the wrong direction. (Other choices are padauk, and some mahogany but I don't think the mahogany is going to be that well quartered.)