AndrewKuker
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..to kill your tone?
Fancy ways...
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Michael N.
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I really like these tone killers. It's also why I use Oak. Really kills the tone. I got really fed up of hearing great tone, after 35 years it gets very boring.
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..to kill your tone?
If I may be so bold....
What the hell is that?
Looks like someone tried to cross a Faberge Egg with an instrument of some kind, or a sound hole with a fractal yeast infection.
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Beau Hannam Ukuleles
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I feel like an ant on a cathedral roof looking down. There is an interesting Japanese build thread somewhere on making one of these. I think id rather pay someone $400 to make one for me 
Bob Bledsoe
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..to kill your tone?
This is way fancier than shoving a pillow in the sound hole.
pootsie
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It seems to work ok for this guy:
BTW, still giggling at "fractal yeast infection"
BTW, still giggling at "fractal yeast infection"
Moore Bettah Ukuleles
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I get vertigo looking at that rosette. I think I saw that in a recent GAL magazine. Looks like a cross between an ariel photo of the Vatican and an inside-out wedding cake.
Timbuck
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Ah! yes ..The parchment rosettes by "Stephen and Sandi" ...Read all about em on the website here http://www.lutesandguitars.co.uk/
...Read all about em on the website here http://www.lutesandguitars.co.uk/Michael N.
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They don't have to be that fancy. Here's one I used on a renaissance Guitar - which is really just a Baritone sized Taropatch.
made of Pearwood and a single Parchment layer.
made of Pearwood and a single Parchment layer.
Masonguitars
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I used to play a baroque guitar with a similar "inverted wedding cake" parchment rosette, and I am here to tell you that it in no way killed the tone. You may find it over to top as decoration, but that is a completely different thing. It is perfect for a baroque instrument--maybe not appropriate for a modern ukulele.
Freeda
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Pretty! That would look nice on the baroquelele.
jcalkin
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Don't dismiss oak so easily. It makes a fine guitar. My oak soprano is still in progress.
Michael N.
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Apologies. I think there was a rather large dose of sarcasm in my response.
jcalkin
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No apology necessary. I felt the sarcasm, I just didn't want you to mislead someone who might enjoy using oak. It seems to make fine instruments, but I don't know yet about ukes.
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