I built myself a new cigar box ukulele over the past 3 weeks. Not your average CBG- it has a nice Spanish cedar box topped with a nicely braced spruce top. Tenor scale. I made a proper bone nut and bridge for it as well. (I don't subscribe to the CBGitty idea of making it as crappy as possible..)
Does not have quite the bottom end as my proper ukes, but with the bridge mounted where it is on the box, that was/is to be expected. The tone is still really nice.
The one issue I'm having is intonation (its a bit flat further up the neck). I built it initially with a straight bone bridge. The issue did not show up down by the nut, but the further I go up the neck, it began to show somewhat. Nothing terrible (I've heard some 'high quality' instruments that were worse), but still worth correcting if possible.
I made myself a compensated nut and that did help matters somewhat, but the issue is still there. I've built many other instruments (guitars, mandolins, etc) and seem to remember some people suggesting a change of strings could improve the intonation.
The uke is currently strung with Aquila Super Nylguts. Would a change to Fluoro's or a different brand help me with intonation? Might be a good cheap experiment?
Does not have quite the bottom end as my proper ukes, but with the bridge mounted where it is on the box, that was/is to be expected. The tone is still really nice.
The one issue I'm having is intonation (its a bit flat further up the neck). I built it initially with a straight bone bridge. The issue did not show up down by the nut, but the further I go up the neck, it began to show somewhat. Nothing terrible (I've heard some 'high quality' instruments that were worse), but still worth correcting if possible.
I made myself a compensated nut and that did help matters somewhat, but the issue is still there. I've built many other instruments (guitars, mandolins, etc) and seem to remember some people suggesting a change of strings could improve the intonation.
The uke is currently strung with Aquila Super Nylguts. Would a change to Fluoro's or a different brand help me with intonation? Might be a good cheap experiment?
