Happy birthday, Hollis! Keep us posted on your build!
G'day Hollis,
CONGRATS on your B.U.B. Day & YOUR BIRTHDAY!!! :cheers:
This is TERRIFIC news and I'm so happy to hear that you decided to commission a custom uke built for you by none other than, Allen, your local Australian luthier extraordinaire and fellow UU member!!! Great choice!!! And what a wonderful birthday present at that!!!
I've been admiring his ukes for quite sometime now and will probably acquire one a little down the road after I make my move back to the mainland from Hawaii in the next few months. Would you be kind enough to elaborate on the specs or the particulars of your B.U.B.?
Please keep posting the progress pics on your B.U.B. so that all of us here on the UU can check in on your uke during the build process!!! Take care my friend, best wishes, and continued good health!!!
Aloha,
Kimo:shaka:
Happy Birthday and congratulations on an excellent choice. Nothing more exciting then following the process of your ukulele being built. Are you going with a round sound hole or the oval Allen seems to be doing a lot of lately. Slothead???? Tenor????
Happy Birthday, I hope you let us see it when it's all done, polished and strung up!
Wow Hollis Allen is really got the pedal to the metal on the progress of your ukulele. I love seeing the inside of an instrument, the bracing, kerfing and trim tell a big story. Looking good buddy.
Amazing progress, the binding and tail graft look great as does the trim around the sound hole. What wood did he use for the bindings and trim.
Congratulations to your birthday and your decision! I saw the pictures on Barron River's Instagram feed and wondered if it might be yours. My wife has a blonde tenor ukulele (Maple/Spruce) made by Beau Hannam and it's probably our favorite both for looks and sound. As with Beau's, I think the light color will match Allen's design perfectly.