captain-janeway
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Just put together my first build. It's a cookie tin uke and it actually plays pretty well. Took some fiddling with the neck to get a good angle for the strings, but I managed to get them down to a playable height.
I get intermittent buzzing but I'm wondering if it's because I put off and on pressure on the top as I play, or just bridge movement. Maybe I need to figure a better internal bracing setup. Any ideas are gratefully appreciated
I love the cookie tin I found and I used the bridge from the uke I chopped up as the tailpiece, and part of it's internal bracing as the bridge.
Think I'll build a banjo uke with a Remo hand drum next time. Got great ideas from this first time. Put it together with a Dremel, good wood chisels and a Japanese hand saw.
Thanks to Titchtheclown and Jerryc41 for their help.