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I'm sure this thread has been visited many times. What are you doing mostly out there for tenors? Flat? Radiused? If radius, what radius?

I was searching something else and stumbled across posts from 2016 about adding relief to necks by doing something with card scrapers or otherwise. The only thing I can figure makes no sense, and that is to take the neck from nut to 12th fret down something like 0.005 to 0.007". I'm not sure...

It's been a hundred years since I was on this forum, but as is typical of me, I have questions so I'm back. Fair weather fan indeed! Watching Kekani (not sure what his real name is) ukulele building series, the episode on gluing the back reinforcement strip in, I decided I wanted to try hide...

This material is too narrow so I am thinking of a figured maple wedge up the back with green purfing on either side. Also thought about doing green binding on the instrument. Thinking about another piece with similar figure for the top so that the whole thing is figured Koa. I don't know...

All of a sudden I found that my conveyor belt was drifted way toward the motor end of my Jet 10-20 Drum Sander. So I loosened things up and positioned it manually. It simply wants to go inward and it seems like there's nothing I can do about that. Have any of you seen this sort of an issue? I...

Any of you folks ever used apple wood in ukulele building? Upside? Downsides? Thanks!

A friend asked me to build him a "quality" soprano ukulele! I have built 2 tenor ukuleles!! I should say "NO", right? But why do I find myself tempted??!

I believe a good number of builders use HHG and I was given a can with enough left to fiddle with (no pun...). But as I look on the internet, I see dollar signs connected to this process, at least to begin with. One could easily be in this nearly $200 to simply try it out. Anybody have a...

I didn't mask off for the bridge like I should have and have finished the Koa top with Tru-Oil. I am preparing to scrape the finish off where the bridge will go and glue it down. If I recall, I used fish glue for my other build. The bridge is Ebony. Any best choices in glue? Thanks, folks!

I saw where a guitar builder weighs his bridges and has a target weight range for them. Got me curious; this tenor Ebony bridge weighs 14 grams. What means that? Do you put any store in heavier, lighter, denser, etc.? How about footprint? This one is about 3 1/4" long by a short inch wide by...

I'm not even going to mention all the feelings I have experienced the past day or so. I'm humbling myself again to ask for help. Please tell me it gets better. I was excited that the uke is in the finishing stage. I had bought and applied 3 coats of Aqua Coat as a pore-filler (with little...

Second time finishing a neck. First time with Tru-oil. Mahogany neck that I pore-filled with Aqua Coat. I have one coat of Tru-Oil on it. So... Do you build coats without sanding between? Do you sand between every coat? Also, what is standard for a neck, satin or glossy? With Tru-Oil...

Best guess is I goofed when clamping this down to cut binding channels. Used steam and it helped some but this dent is still pretty deep. Any ideas? Thank you.

Do any of you make your own purfling? Even down to the .010 inch thick stuff? How do you do that? Curious if I could do that... Chuck Barnett

Building the neck start to finish is entirely a frustrating experience for me. And the capstone has now become gluing the fretboard onto the neck. I tried my level best to realign the neck (several times) while the glue was setting up and thought that I had it right and tightened the clamps...

I really don't have much more than about .004" of difference between the neck surface and the body at the heel. I think the simplest fix is to elongate the quarter inch hole that holds the body and neck together. This is my second build so I am asking if anybody does that and is there any...

I'm really addressing two issue at this point: 1) You may have seen from another thread that I have slotted my ebony fretboard and now find a pretty determined bow in it. I'm hoping that a good glue job will settle that down. (although I have absolutely zero experience from which to make that...

I am building a bolt-on tenor uke. When I set the fretboard onto the bolted on neck I'm seeing a 0.007" (feeler gauge) gap between the underside of the fretboard and the top, just north of the soundhole. That gap tightens up as you slide the gauge closer to the neck. As a noob, I think I need...

I'm working on my first inlay project (mother of pearl), practicing on East Indian Rosewood and planning to do the actual peghead veneer in W. African Ebony. Didn't choose to try the shell cutting so I simply planned to do the easier task -routing the pockets. HAH! I got my logo back from...

Call it tunnel-vision, or feeling my oats (certainly few under age 60 have a clue...), or just plain ol' dumb, but I got a tad over zealous chasing an errant saw kerf out of the back of this tenor neck/peghead joint. At the thinnest that area is 5/16". And the peghead by my calipers runs...