What's happening in your shed?

Jerryc41 · Dec 7, 2020

Titchtheclown said:
An electric uke demo
Meranti body, tasmanian oak neck, karri fretboard, fret markers of shell bought from mosaic tile company. two humbucker pickups, separately volumed in parallel. Sealed tuners and light electric guitar strings. The art work applied by printing it onto an overhead projector slide, spray painting the reverse of that in silver so the clear "white" bits finish up silver and epoxied on.

If I do another I have made enough mistakes on this one to learn from.

Great sound!

Dusepo · Dec 7, 2020

Timbuck said:
Wonderful stuff there Dusei ....did you make all those moulds yourself ?

Thanks!
Yep, I make all my own moulds/forms. One for each of the bowlback instruments I build (there's more on the other wall, not shown in the video).

Titchtheclown · Dec 8, 2020

A fretless bass Ukulelephant.
Meranti body
Tassie oak neck carbon fibre reinforced.
Louder than a solid body but not by much.

Dusepo · Dec 10, 2020

Jerryc41 · Dec 11, 2020

Dusepo said:

That's beautiful!

Titchtheclown · Dec 11, 2020

Apologies for the bad bass playing. I blame it on the mix of fretless and being a less than average uke player, not a bass player. The phone also adjusts volume automatically so it may give a false impression of how loud it is acoustically. I may have lost a bit of volume by having a 485mm scale length rather than 514mm but I used my old
template from fender styled 4 on one side headstock where the d string won't reach the tuning peg otherwise.

gerardg · Dec 12, 2020

Back in 2018 year.

A pineapple mezzo soprano.
363 mm. scale.
Soft red cedar top.
Five pieces fan braces.

More pics on the blog.

http://gg-ukuleles-artisanaux.eklablog.com/recent/45

Tukanu · Dec 12, 2020

On the bench: Quilted maple teardrop super soprano.

Jim Hanks · Dec 12, 2020

Tukanu said:
On the bench: Quilted maple teardrop super soprano.View attachment 131165

:drool: spoken for?

Tukanu · Dec 12, 2020

Yes, but there is always another in the pipeline

Timbuck · Dec 13, 2020

Latest Soprano....All African (Khaya) Mahogany, Indian Rosewood fretboard...and lots of sustain..I wish I was a better musician

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZuTRoHNgAY

morfrost · Dec 13, 2020

Video appears to be private. Too bad,I enjoy looking at and hearing your fine craftsmanship.

Timbuck · Dec 13, 2020

It is now viewable..sorry about that

Jerryc41 · Dec 13, 2020

Timbuck said:
Latest Soprano....All African (Khaya) Mahogany, Indian Rosewood fretboard...and lots of sustain..I wish I was a better musician
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZuTRoHNgAY

That's a beauty - nice tune, too.

ktuurna · Dec 17, 2020

Today I made jig for routing side sound hole and made one.

Jerryc41 · Dec 18, 2020

ktuurna said:
Today I made jig for routing side sound hole and made one.
View attachment 131247
View attachment 131248

So you cut the hole in the flat piece and then curve it. I've cut a couple of sound ports in ukes that were already made - not quite as simple.

gerardg · Dec 18, 2020

Mezzo soprano Martin SO body proportions ( 112 % ) in progress.

Body front and rear blocks.

ktuurna · Dec 18, 2020

Jerryc41 said:
So you cut the hole in the flat piece and then curve it. I've cut a couple of sound ports in ukes that were already made - not quite as simple.

No, bend first, then glued laminated kerfing and then routed a hole.

Dusepo · Dec 20, 2020

Jerryc41 · Dec 20, 2020

Dusepo said:

That's beautiful. I wonder if a uke would work with the headstock tilted back that much.

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