I have talked to Mike for a while about commissioning a tenor and I pulled the trigger a couple of months ago.
He had some work he had to finish first so we discussed woods and what I wanted in the ukulele.
I wanted a uke that I could finger pick comfortably. I'm slowly starting to learn fingerstyle and that is what this build is aimed at.
I also wanted something a little unusual for the body. Something striking, yet classy.
He showed me several wood sets that he has. He described the Chechen (Caribbean Rosewood) as being very hard and dense. That it worked very much like the other hard rosewoods such as Brazillian, Madagascar & Cocobolo. It should produce a clear, well-rounded tone from base to treble. So I decided to go with the Chechen.
Here is what the Chechen blanks looked like:
He had some work he had to finish first so we discussed woods and what I wanted in the ukulele.
I wanted a uke that I could finger pick comfortably. I'm slowly starting to learn fingerstyle and that is what this build is aimed at.
I also wanted something a little unusual for the body. Something striking, yet classy.
He showed me several wood sets that he has. He described the Chechen (Caribbean Rosewood) as being very hard and dense. That it worked very much like the other hard rosewoods such as Brazillian, Madagascar & Cocobolo. It should produce a clear, well-rounded tone from base to treble. So I decided to go with the Chechen.
Here is what the Chechen blanks looked like:
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