What's happening in your shed?

A slightly new variation on the band sawn bowl uke. Basically cutting giant U's instead of giant O's and using the already set up angle to trim offcuts to fit precisely in the ends. It had a flat end so it stands up by itself.20181120_083028.jpg
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Doesn't Mrs T know who wears the trousers? Oh yes, it seems she does!
Lovely figuring there Ken.
 
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Beautiful work. Love the design of the sound hole in the foreground - quite mesmerizing.

John Colter.
 
I don't know why I can't say no. Just a 60s or 70s piece of Japanese plywood rubish in need of a neck reset. I've never done a neck reset before. The fretboard and an ill fitting neck dovetail was the only thing holding this thing together. I didn't have a stewmac fretboard removing tool but a pointing trowel proved an ideal handyman's replacement. Unfortunately I think the plywood came apart before the fretboard came off cleanly because it is hot glue ply.20181202_151815.jpg
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Not a major issue, graft on a piece as filler, chisel off the wood on the fretboard (pretty sure you probably figured that out yourself) and see what the dovetail needs. I did my first reset on a Silvertone archtop where the neck was mainly held on by the fretboard. Made it easy to remove. A metal spatula that is sanded thinner at the end is a good tool to use to get the fretboard off.
 
Finally got round to putting the fretboard on my first baritone attempt. I need to figure out what to do for the nut and the saddle now. How would people feel about brass?
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"old brass letter box"

It might give your uke a knocking sound.............................

John Colter.
 
The latest set of four

Three commissions and one made as a fund-raising donation for the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum. Concert in spalted sycamore and streaky water-tank redwood, with a 'piping-pig' inlay. Tenor in casuarina and curly water-tank redwood, bocote fingerboard which extends into the headplate. Tenor for Bailey-Matthews in casuarina and cypress (a Florida uke) with mollusc inlays down the fretboard and on heel cap. Baritone with ancient sitka spruce top and curly eastern black walnut back and sides, with feather inlay on headstock.
 

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Cherry and mahogany sopranos with flame maple binding and ebony stuff. Both have flown the coup. Surprisingly, the cherry is a wonderful sounding boom cannon; the mahogany sounds like it should.
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