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Uke-alot
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Useful little tool
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I have found a very useful little tool for carving neck heels. In the past I have used various things for this operation, including...
Mar 26, 2024
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Thin body ukes
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That this is possible is confirmed by some historical acoustic research and by a recent research paper entitled "The Relationship...
Mar 26, 2024
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Another method of joining two plates together.
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I've often struggled with joining the top plate halves. After viewing Pete's method, I bit the bullet and bought a #6 Bailey. My first...
Mar 26, 2024
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Please be aware that the trees mentioned in that original article are not the redwood that ones sees in commerce, or as instrument tops...
Mar 13, 2024
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Ha. Just saw this on the news. Widely known as Wellingtonia here. I have several soundboards of uk grown stuff I’ve not built with yet...
Mar 13, 2024
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3D Printing Your Own Luthier Tools
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3D printed a circle cutter for inlaying a rosette and cutting the soundhole as part of my first build. Original design held a standard...
Feb 2, 2024
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There is another version of that clamp which seems identical to the one designed by Taylor. I made a few of them, and they seem fine...
Feb 2, 2024
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By wrapping the powerful magnets in Teflon tape so that glue would not stick to them and shuffling them around over the damaged area...
Jan 31, 2024
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Health and safety at its best ?
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At one point I had the opportunity to collect a possibly turn of the 20th century 12" planer from my father that my grandfather had...
Jan 28, 2024
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Purple Mini just completed
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I got the strings on today. This is a travel size uke made of purpleheart with a bubinga fretboard an Alder neck. Scale is 13" and the...
Jan 27, 2024
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Building a soprano
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Buying a drum sander is out of the budget. And the idea of thicknessing the top back and sides with a handplane is unappealing to me. So...
Jan 25, 2024
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Haha! I find myself getting impatient to work on the actual project when I have to fix a tool or something. Then I just remind myself...
Jan 24, 2024
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Building a soprano
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Sometimes fixing up old woodworking machines is the "hobby" you need to do so that you can do your real hobby.
Jan 24, 2024
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Seeking info about tone woods
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Quartersawn lumber is better than plain sawn for tops and backs because it's more dimensionally stable, but it can be hard to source...
Jan 22, 2024
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