What's happening in your shed?

Mostly resawing.
Some lovely ribbon Sapele big enough for up to small parlour guitar sets, and Hon Mahogany for a couple dozen sop/concert sets, mostly for sale.
Some English Apple, English Yew and Laburnum, mostly for myself.
Have finally got round to making a start on an all oak concert, from a lovely interesting quarter sawn floorboard removed from a job about 4 years ago.
 

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Have been sitting on 8 or 9 UK grown redwood tops for about 3 or 4 years. At 2.5mm it has more cross grain stiffness than cedar or spruce I’ve had at 4-5mm. Amazing tap tone. It is an unusual pinky colour that I’ve found challenging to pair up aesthetically with anything.
I’m now very excited to pair it with the apple, which has lovely pinky purple streaks through it. Have given both a little bit of oil and the redwood has gone an almost deep burgundy/pink I think will look rather handsome.
Will pair it with plum fretboard and bridge I think
Photos with and without finish
 

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de Houtwinkel said:
Working up the layers of French polishing. I'll probably definitely start charging more for snakewood ukes though 😳
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Wow... Never worked with the stuff, but I love the figure. From what I understand, it is hard to find the wood large enough for ukulele plates.

Snakewood | The Wood Database (Hardwood)

www.wood-database.com www.wood-database.com

Also hard as nails at 3,800 janka that will blow away your tools. Did you use the same stuff for the sides? Must be tough to bend. Very difficult wood to work with. Anyway, I'm impressed. Very nice.
 
sequoia said:
Wow... Never worked with the stuff, but I love the figure. From what I understand, it is hard to find the wood large enough for ukulele plates.

Snakewood | The Wood Database (Hardwood)

www.wood-database.com www.wood-database.com

Also hard as nails at 3,800 janka that will blow away your tools. Did you use the same stuff for the sides? Must be tough to bend. Very difficult wood to work with. Anyway, I'm impressed. Very nice.
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I use it quite often for fretboards and such. It's easy to sand, but dulls your tools quickly that's for sure.

Probably the hardest(no pun intended) wood I've ever had to bend. It doesn't hold any moisture when heat is applied to it..it was a struggle lol.

Pretty much everything is snakewood except for the neck, top, and interior.
 
Collaboration

This tenor is a commission from a local artist who grew up here in Florida on the space coast, watching rocket launches, playing with dolphins in the waterway, and being outside with all of the wildlife. The stars are her constellation Tarus, the endgraft and heel plate are mangrove from an old log she saved. Sides and back are casuarina, hard as ebony and an invasive species here in Florida. This was cut from some trees taken down to restore a local natural area. Top is cypress, neck and binding are Cuban (West Indian) mahogany from a big tree a neighbor took down. Ebony headplate, fingerboard, and bridge. I gave her the body in white, she did the painting, and then I finished over it. The inlays down the fingerboard go 'deeper' from the air into the water.

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This is a semiacoustic version of a flying V Bass ukulele. Body is made from my old kitchen cupboard doors, blackwood for sure but who knows from where. Neck is laminated from blackwood and Tasmanian oak floorboard. Fretboard and bridge are recycled ironbark flooring. Fret markers from akoya shell buttons. The shell fish hook on the 5th fret was made freehand by me from kitchen leftover abalone shell. Im pretty sure it probably wouldn't catch many fish. The fish hook on the headstock was copied from generic tribal tatoo fish hook templates printed on tracing paper and superglued face down. The tuners, pickup, strings and preamp from Aliexpress. Reduced the noise a bit by running an earth wire across the pots. Volume & tone knobs are also blackwood. 20231214_134609.jpg20231214_134619.jpg20231215_103202.jpg
 
Another uke bass completed. Mahogany with walnut binding. My baritone body with neck and fittings by MGB Guitars.
 

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I've been working on the layout for a new project, a 21" scale baritone guilele. This will be the third baritone-esque instrument I've built from drawings for a 1940 Gibson L-00 that I reduced to 70%. Quite by accident, the dimensions are very close to a Kanilea GL-6. A first for me is that this instrument will have reverse fan bracing. Body will be Pernambuco with a top from old growth Red Spruce from the eastern mountains of my home state.

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