MentalAtom
Well-known member
Short version:
- I have some money "burning a hole in my pocket" for a nice $1000+ ukulele
- I was always looking at Kanile'a due to the nice wide nut width and the beautiful instruments, and they always sound great online.
- I saw a crazy deal on a "The Rebel" Original Fake (Western Yellow Cedar/Red Cedar/Padauk/Ebony) where it's $400 off list price just because they didn't sell it yet. Also sounds great although of course not so "conventional"
- Nut width on Rebel is 37mm instead of my usual 38mm but I figure it'll still be fine (no way of trying to it to find out, but just 1mm and at least it's not super narrow 35mm or so)
So, the question is, the Rebel would normally cost more than a K-1, but is the quality comparable (for those of you who own or have played both)? Of course the Rebel is not Hawaiian made but it's a pretty unique instrument and they have some up on the ukulele site too right now (apparently they only built 20).
What would you do?
- I have some money "burning a hole in my pocket" for a nice $1000+ ukulele
- I was always looking at Kanile'a due to the nice wide nut width and the beautiful instruments, and they always sound great online.
- I saw a crazy deal on a "The Rebel" Original Fake (Western Yellow Cedar/Red Cedar/Padauk/Ebony) where it's $400 off list price just because they didn't sell it yet. Also sounds great although of course not so "conventional"
- Nut width on Rebel is 37mm instead of my usual 38mm but I figure it'll still be fine (no way of trying to it to find out, but just 1mm and at least it's not super narrow 35mm or so)
So, the question is, the Rebel would normally cost more than a K-1, but is the quality comparable (for those of you who own or have played both)? Of course the Rebel is not Hawaiian made but it's a pretty unique instrument and they have some up on the ukulele site too right now (apparently they only built 20).
What would you do?