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Let's see if this works... Yes! Two Compass Rose ukes...which I build...one my four string tenor...my go-to instruments...and the other a nearly matching six string owned by Sandor Nagyszalanczy, my "Uke Ellington" playing partner and contributor to Ukulele Magazine for which he does the...

I got this email a few minutes ago from Chris Herrod of LMI: Dear Friends, As many of you know, in the Spring of 2014 Luthiers Mercantile International (LMI) issued the following statement regarding the future of the Healdsburg Guitar Festival: …. having taken a closer look at our investment...

The subject of "what is the best wood for..." keeps coming up here, so I thought I'd get a discussion going re. just what the properties are that make "tone wood" out of a timber. For the sake of discussion, I'm going to use the popular names, but I will post a list of the Latin names in a day...

Just to let you all know what we luthiers are up against with koa prices: http://tonewood.com/guitar-wood/acoustic-guitar-tonewood-sets/koa-acoustic-back-and-side-sets.html?utm_source=20141028_Koa-Walnut-Myrtle-Maple&utm_campaign=eNewsletter&utm_medium=email OK, that's mostly guitar sets, but...

I just learned that my old friend, Mandolin Brother Stan Jay, just passed away from a rare form of lymphoma. Stan was one of the first guys who, along with Hap Kuffner (his former partner in Mando Bros.) George Gruhn, Stan Werbin, Fred Oster, Jim Baggett, and Richard Johnston and Frank Ford...

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Each forum that I've visited, posted upon, or lurked around seems to have its own distinct flavor, and some are more visited by real experts, luthiers, and curators than others. Two I highly recommend are The Banjo Hangout and the Mandolin Cafe. Both have extremely high level discussions...

I'd like to thank Elaine de Man and her family and Andy Andrews for putting on another slamming great Wine Country Uke Festival up in St. Helena last weekend. My son, Eli, and I brought our portable lutherie workbench and stayed hellabusy putting in strap buttons, doing fret levels, action...

"Peel me a Grape", (written by Dave Frishberg and popularized by Diana Krall) from Sandor's birthday party. For "uke content", "Uke Ellingto" is Sandor Nagyszalanczy on a Graziano baritone (this cut), me on my koa Compass Rose tenor; both with my D-TAR pickup systems taken direct. The...

If anyone planning to attend the Wine Country Uke Festival needs a uke looked at to evaluate problems, to see if it could be set up better, to add strap buttons, etc., my son, Eli, and I will be there with our portable workbench and we'll be happy to look at your ukes, advise, and take care of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8gFpPkpS0k I did this at Gryphon Stringed Instruments in Palo Alto last week. The uke is a new 14 fret Compass Rose that I delivered that very day.

http://www.mercurynews.com/entertainment/ci_25616857?source=inthenews

Last week I wrote a message to the moderators of the UU outlining what I saw as being heavy-handed or somewhat misguided closings of a thread (Palm Wood) right on the heels of allowing a thread to develop which I found to be unfairly critical of one of our brethren luthiers, Joe Souza...and then...

A chilly wind is blowing from the West... I think I'll take a break from the UU for a while...

This thread boggles my mind. http://www.ukuleleunderground.com/forum/showthread.php?83206-Kanilea-Active-Pickup-in-Aldrine-Model-is-INCREDIBLY-NOISY-Watch-this-Video I chime in around page 4 or 5. This posting is utterly inexcusable behavior on the part of a customer...and this is the sh--...

This is an animation of a CAD assembly "drawing" of one of my magnetic pickups...the one we use on our Model 1 guitar. https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=644062025605672&comment_id=89073639&offset=0&total_comments=2 Next up will be CAD drawings of our uke and then guitar fingerboards...

Here's a link to discounted reconditioned Festool stuff: http://festoolusa.com/power-tools/reconditioned/ No skin in the game, just an admirer of the quality of these tools and also an admirer of bargains on high end purchases.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=l2KJbRHO76s&NR=1 I'd love to have a line shaft run shop, and I've got a few tools of that era...a 100 year old Crescent 20" band saw, an even older table saw, and a 1920's or '30s Crescent 8" jointer...none in service at this time, but...

I posted this over on Uke Talk: http://www.ukuleleunderground.com/forum/showthread.php?79974-UV-Cured-Finishes I got tired of "UV Finish" being talked about as though it's something different from conventional catalyzed finishes. It's only a cure method.

There's a lot of chatter about "UV Finishes" here with little apparent understanding of what they are. "UV" is not in and of itself a finish. "UV"...Ultra Violet light...is a means of curing modern polyurethane and polyester finishes, and is used instead of the more conventional addition...