What's happening in your shed?

Very nice work everybody, there sure are a lot of talented luthiers around these parts! I'd better stop golfing and get to work!

Orra said:

Which soundboard choices did you go with in the end?

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Had a request to purchase the Blackwood with Torrified Sitka so here they are with bodies before I applied pore filler.

I've not been doing much instrument building over the last few months due to other projects, including our never-ending basement remodel. I had been eyeing the Veritas Shooting Sander, but decided to make my own version from laminated plywood. Edges were chamfered and sanded to eliminate splinters, and strips of UHMW tape added to the bottom to enhance gliding. A small rebate was cut along the edge of the shooting board so neither my planes nor my shooting sander cut into the board. This will be helpful when I begin working on the Red Spruce top for my next project. Soon. I hope.

Here is two new tenors I finished lately. They are both lattice braced strung low g. One is all African Mahogany with a Rosewood fingerboard and bridge and figured Maple head plate. The other is very nice old straight grained Rosewood with a Torrified Sitka Spruce top, Rosewood finger board, bridge and head plate. The Mahogany has more midrange as I would expect and the Rosewood Spruce has more bass and treble response. They both produce a strong full sound, I'm happy with my new design!

Ok, so I'm no Luthier, that's for sure...but had some fun in my Shop this weekend using up some scrap barnwood, and leftover junk...FUN!

Shari said:

View attachment 171163View attachment 171164View attachment 171165View attachment 171166View attachment 171167Ok, so I'm no Luthier, that's for sure...but had some fun in my Shop this weekend using up some scrap barnwood, and leftover junk...FUN!

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damn! wild as all get out. 4 frets? serious? and the nut design...gotta have a sound demo. it's gorgeous.

Another Ditsonesque concert. Tasmanian blackwood and walnut bindings.

mountain goat said:

damn! wild as all get out. 4 frets? serious? and the nut design...gotta have a sound demo. it's gorgeous.

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Haha Thanks...but it's not a player...it's just a wallhanger! Only an inch thick! Told ya, I'm no Luthier...but love playing with barnwood, and junk. Gonna make a bunch more, cuz I've got lots of scrapwood and junk to use . I'll make one for you, if ya want

This UVBass is a semiacoustic version of a flying V as a Bass ukulele. Body is made from my old kitchen cupboard doors, blackwood for sure but who knows from where. Neck is Tasmanian oak. Fretboard and bridge are recycled ironbark flooring. The V on the 5th fret and fret markers were made by me from kitchen leftover abalone shell. The tuners, pickup, strings and preamp from Aliexpress. Volume & tone knobs and headstock veneer are also blackwood, which were chemically stained with rusty steel wool and vinegar mixed together. The scratch plate mimics the Gibson flying V somewhat.

I give my ukes away on a donation to charity or play it forward basis. My output includes everything from archaic and regulation to electric to Tahitian to novelty, banjo and cookie tin. From the sublime to the ridiculous and occasionally the sublimely ridiculous. You ask for and I send a uke and when you receive it you give a donation to a charity. Messenger or email Ian.titulaer@gmail.com to order.
See my website for more info and past work https://sites.google.com/site/titchtheclown/