Bill Sheehan
Well-known member
RafterGirl, may I ask, what kind of pimpage are you going to be applying to your KoAloha koa?
I started another thread to ask for advice on making changes to my 2006 concert, or selling and starting new. The overwhelming vote was to make the changes to a great playing & sounding uke. So I’m changing out the old style friction tuners to Gotoh UPTs. The old tuners are the white ones with the KoAloha logo & large screws. I’m also adding a MiSi pick-up. It has a gloss neck that I wish was satin, but I may be able to knock that down a bit. Satin necks are my favorite, but semi-gloss will work. Full heavy gloss is a no-go. I have the tuners & pickup on order, and the work will be at a local acoustic guitar & ukulele shop.RafterGirl, may I ask, what kind of pimpage are you going to be applying to your KoAloha koa?
I'm coming from the other direction. Since rekindling my passion for ukuleles, my guitars are gathering dust.
I'm on the other end of the scale from Eddie, with several cheap ukes (Fender Venice, Ohana concert, Kala Tenor) that I bought trying to figure out what I liked and am now replacing with better ones. The problem is that they're not really worth enough to put in effort to sell, and I haven't found a good place to donate them. I have promised not to buy more until they go though, and I still don't have a Bari, so something will move them!
I need to move out a number so may consider listing virtually everything except my Hive, my Grimes and a couple of recent additions, and then let the market decide by seeing which four or so sell first. The problem is I don't want to sell any of these, but I keep buying. Not because I think there is anything better out there, but because I enjoy experiencing different ones.
Collings UC3MSB, the only cherry sunburst they ever made (on hold; somebody wants is if I can actually let it go)
KoAloha all 'hog longneck soprano, limited run (on hold for somebody until next week)
Ono Wahoo torrefied spruce/sapele tenor (great playability and tone; have my eye on another Ono)
Blackbird Farallon (highly customized, including unigrain top like their Savoy guitar which I think sounds even better than the standard Farallon, radius fretboard, sunburst, parallelogram markers, fancy rosette)
Kinnard Series 3 spruce/California sycamore tenor (there will always be a Kinnard in my stable, so if did let this one go, I'd be getting another one)
Beau Hannam Grand 19" tenor, Selmer body shape, sinker redwood top/Amazon rosewood body (really spectacular instrument and the longer scale helps deliver a lot of tone)
TODA, spruce/Madagascar tenor, cut-away body shape (about as rare as a unicorn; incredible tone)
So I’m changing out the old style friction tuners to Gotoh UPTs.
Definitely the second option. Although I often sleep & nap in a hammock while traveling down the river, so I suppose that could count as “hanging in the rafters.”I bet you can sell those old white tuners.
"RafterGirl" puts two images in my head: where you sleep or how you travel on a river.