DuckyI
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Can you imagine the volume!Spruce-top Ken Timms ukes? Now that sounds very interesting!
Can you imagine the volume!Spruce-top Ken Timms ukes? Now that sounds very interesting!
I have put one together before , but I can't say that it was louder than mahogany maybe brighter sounding with a definite lack of bass.Can you imagine the volume!
I have put one together before , but I can't say that it was louder than mahogany maybe brighter sounding with a definite lack of bass.
what do you think.
So if you purchase a Cuban mahogany uke which is specifically described as 'Cuban', based on jupiterukes question then it may not be made from Cuban mahogany.
Is this correct ?
Please be aware I cannot guarantee that it is a spruce top ...I looks like spruce...smells like spruce and the guy who I got from says it's spruce.Spruce-top Ken Timms ukes? Now that sounds very interesting!
If the time frame of the construction of the furniture matches the widespread use of Cuban mahogany and it is represented as such to Timbuck, I believe that is what you should be assured that it is, even if the certainty is not 100% and there is not "test" for it.In the case of spruce I would definately agree but as you have said previously mahogany your not sure.
In the case of spruce I would definately agree but as you have said previously mahogany your not sure.
Yes ! ... But what kind of spruce ?In the case of spruce I would definately agree but as you have said previously mahogany your not sure.
Reclaimed wood don't come with Test Certificates , Letters of conformity or anything. The builder just has to trust the seller description.
Mine too.I love my 'Cuban' mahogany ukulele built by Ken Timms.
I was wondering the same. Pardon my ignorance but why does the geopolitical provenance of mahogany (or that of any other tone wood, for that matter) make any real difference to the end user? In other words, is Cuban mahogany inherently more valuable because it would unquestionably have come from trees harvested many decades ago, per the same sort of historically verifiable chronology as boards of American Chestnut, a subspecies which no longer exists because of the well documented fact that all those majestic, towering native trees were wiped out by a blight between 1920 and 1940?I wonder how many people could tell the difference between a Cuban, Honduran or African Mahogany uke?
Visually- and tonally?