My first one

My first (but surely not last) ukulele build. The idea of making one myself started about a year ago when I held in my hands my friends first soprano. He had made it in Pete Howlett's extreme build 2010 here in Finland. I just fell in love with this instrument and knew that I had to make one myself. So here it is...

Some specs:
top: (lightly) flamed walnut
back & sides rosewood
fingerboard walnut
neck, blocks and kerfings: mahogany
bracing: spruce
finish: terrible truoil finish

I had a lot of trouble with this one but I'm quite pleased with the result. It actually sounded better than I had hoped But there are number of things that really bug me with this but I can only try and avoid making the same mistakes in my future builds.. Hope you like it! Oh and the 2.0 model is already in the making..

Wow, looks pretty darn good for your first build. Congrats...you can be proud.

I'm really partial to wood that would be found around where I live - problems you have with it aside, any chance you'll post a sound clip? I'd love to hear how the walnut sounds (my mountain dulcimer is walnut and sounds pretty darned nice).

Nice job Kokkeli! That's some pretty walnut. Nice detail on your 14th fret.

Thanks for the compliments!

To Macmuse: I won't be able to give any sound samples because i'm currently moving and just last weekend I took this baby to my next address. I'm taking the rest of my stuff there in three weeks of time so I won't be even seeing this uke for a while... Also I have only just started playing and I'm not that great at it yet so I might post some samples laaaater... But I sure like the warm sound of the walnut. It was nice and easy to work with and I'm going to use it in my future builds too.

To mketom: the fretboard end is shaped like that because of my headstock design. I wanted to use the same shape twice to get a feeling of continuance...

Hmm...rosewood body with a hardwood top? Interesting combo. Looks great