oldetymey
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Had a bunch of scrap wood left over from remodel project, and decided to take a shot at a coffin case...laid it out on graph paper first to figure out the angles, and built the body today. Its just made from cheap pine 1x4's and the bottom is 1/4 ply underlayment. I built it for my silvertone, and it looks a little big in the pics, but the silvertone is a small bodied soprano, and I wanted it to be universal for all my ukes so I gave it a little extra space. The gobs of stuff on it is just putty covering the screw heads, when thats dry it will get a sand, stain and poly, and lined with padding and muppet skin. Its nothing special, but getting the angles right was a pain so Im pretty psyched it turned out so good in that regard. Its amazingly light for solid wood (probably because its such cheap wood). Tommorow Ill build a plank lid for it. Im not getting too fancy with it, and Im leaving alot of imperfections in it, I want it to resemble kind of an weathered old west style "pine box". My wife recently let me convert an unused bedroom off of our family room into a dedicated workshop so I wanted an easy fun project to kick it off, best of all its free!