Initial Review
Okay, now it is official ...
So, the Hannam tenor:
17” Scale, fourteen frets to the body. In a Crossrock fiberglass case.
Top is sinker Redwood, back and sides are Rosewood, as is the fretboard. The headstock overlays fore and aft are walnut burl, the headstock insets are agate, lined inside with gold foil. The agate window goes all the way through. The “H,” in MOP. The headstock is one-piece, bound in Tasmanian Blackwood. The fretboard is also bound in figured Taz black. The nut is MOP nacre, and the saddle is Tusq™.
The heel cap overlay is snakewood, as is the neck strap pin.
Purfling is BWB.
The end graft, centered around the jack for an Aloha Twin by K&K, is snakewood and buckeye burl.
The fret inlays are snakewood, and the 12th fret marker is snakewood, buckeye burl, Black Tahitian MOP and White MOP dots in 3mm, 2mm and 1mm.
The one-piece neck is Honduran Mahogany, with a carbon-fiber rod. The tuners are by Keith Robson, the first of his used on an ukulele. Original buttons were ebony, but were upgraded to snakewood. You can't believe how smooth these suckers are.
The three-piece rosette woods include: snakewood, buckeye burl, African blackwood, koa, cocobolo, Oregon myrtle, and beefwood, with the opening bound in snakewood, and inspired by Michi Matsuda’s work. The sound port is bound in cocobolo.
The bass strings are Southcoast wound low-G and wound C, and the trebles are Oasis fluorocarbon. Beau's choice.
All in all, one of the most stunning ukes I’ve laid eyes on, outstanding, clean, and tastefully-blinged. And it is a joy to hold and play, a cannon.
As to the sound sample, (posted in the Uke Talk section,) please excuse my ineptitude. I can't play for sour owl poot, but even that isn’t enough to hide the lovely tone.
When I started looking into getting a Hannam build, I found the HMS sound sample of Cory Fujimoto playing a Hannam sinker Redwood/Tasmanian Blackwood tenor, the song being Cory’s arrangement of the Chet Atkins’ tune, “Still Can’t Say Goodbye.” I thought it was such a lovely tune I decided to try and learn it. Found Cory’s TAB and am giving it a go. Not there yet, and I’m not ever going to be within a parsec of Cory’s ability, but if I get it down that one will be the next sound sample.
A couple more pictures, but if you have access to Facebook, this link might take to you the photo album Beau did on this beauty:
http://tinyurl.com/n59lnqb
Or not, depending on your browser. If you want to see ‘em and you can’t click through, you can search FaceBook for “Beau Hannam Guitars,” click through to Photos - Albums - Agate Window Tenor with custom Snakewood Robson tuners, and get fifty-some images over which you can pore, if you want to see how Beau does a tenor ukulele.
Way more detail and information than you are apt to want, unless you are considering commissioning him for a build. Or you just like blinged-out ukulele p*** …
The new toy in no way diminishes any of the old toys, but since it is new, I will be spending some quality time with her. I am thrilled with this instrument, I can't begin to tell you how much ...

