Recent content by Dr.Ukenstein

Well it did go thru. The RYOBI battery + power pack is sitting on top of a 300 watt Hartke amp head. The speaker is a 4 ohm 15" Hartke HyDrive mounted n an enclosed TOA PA cabinet with the horn guts removed. The rig is setting on a standard milk crate for size and reach. Sandwiched between is a...

Just a quick share. The RYOBI Power Source inverter that uses the 40 volt power tool lithium battery delivers a pure sine wave. At 79 bucks, this is a very good lightweight solution to power a bass amp off grid. Up to 300 watts! Best solution I have found, so far. Dr. U.

OK, All U brother pluckers and sister pickers in the Ubass universe: Can a less than 25" scale acoustic bass (modified Epi-guitar) be classified as a mega-long scale big body acoustic Ubass? Asking for a friend...

Instead of running your strap to the headstock which I find awkward, where is best to mount the strap peg on an acoustic ukulele? The base of the heel of the neck mount makes the uke roll forward. Other players have shown me a spot on the heel underneath the neck that they say is best. It...

So, my wife is gone to Miami. I got a couple hours to clutter the kitchen table. The Oscar Schmidt OGQS mini-six string guitar arrived yesterday. In this pic, he is laid out ready for conversion to a 5 steel string bari-tenor uke. Here he is on the table stripped and ready to be operated upon.

My wife is away for the weekend. Took this time to disassemble my homemade ubass on the kitchen table. Had to glue and clamp loose spot under fretboard, route body edges, and install ground wire connector, today. Tomorrow, work tung oil into mahogany body to hide the old 40 wt. oil spot left...

As a bass and guitar plucker and now solid body uke ubee, I have used many means to amplify my instruments beyond plugging into a fixed electrical outlet. Gas generators are noisy and defeat the whole non-polluting concept. Inverters have/had an annoying 60 cycle hum and require lugging a heavy...

Here is something that has eluded my searches. Your help is much appreciated. As the title says and more... The neck should be in the 43 mm range of width and well braced for stainless steel strings. My plan is to convert it to a non-entrant tenor with an added low D-string and use it as my...

Not quite sure how the forum works. This is my first attempt. About two months ago, I sat in on a ukulele class/jam in Key Largo and volunteered to play the instructor's Kala ubass that she had received as a gift. I had to work at compressing my fingers into the much tighter scale than my Fender...