A note about Thomas Macomson of Makapili ukulele fame -

[Ed Gilkison]

Hi guys,
Thomas Macomson, of Makapili ukulele fame, is in the Pacific Northwest for a bit, and have been hosting him at our house.
He has been out in our old boat building shop, building a few pineapple soprano ukuleles, and wanted to share a few photos from a couple days ago.
Also a photo of when I had a few of his instruments here at the house some years ago -

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[BillM]

This is fantastic news. I have been looking for one of Thomas’ ukes for years. Any chance he is interested in making a concert size again? Is the plan to sell the sopranos?

Bill

 

[Ed Gilkison]

This is fantastic news. I have been looking for one of Thomas’ ukes for years. Any chance he is interested in making a concert size again? Is the plan to sell the sopranos?

Bill

Hi guys,
Thomas Macomson, of Makapili ukulele fame, is in the Pacific Northwest for a bit, and have been hosting him at our house.
He has been out in our old boat building shop, building a few pineapple soprano ukuleles, and wanted to share a few photos from a couple days ago.
Also a photo of when I had a few of his instruments here at the house some years ago -

e

Thomas is making good progress on his first batch of instruments - these pineapple sopranos, and said next up will be a batch of pineapple Concerts ! -

 

[ploverwing]

That is really neat! What a great opportunity for you to host!

 

[Ed Gilkison]

This is fantastic news. I have been looking for one of Thomas’ ukes for years. Any chance he is interested in making a concert size again? Is the plan to sell the sopranos?

Bill

Hi Bill, I mentioned to Thomas your pm about wanting a Concert size, and he said the next batch he intends on starting building, are Concert Pineapples, then if our workshop is still available, I am hoping he does a few Tenors, Baritones, Terz guitars, and Parlor guitars. -

 

[BillM]

Ed,

Thank you for letting us know. And the waiting begins...

Bill

 

[Ed Gilkison]

Hi guys,
Thomas Macomson, of Makapili ukulele fame, is in the Pacific Northwest for a bit, and have been hosting him at our house.
He has been out in our old boat building shop, building a few pineapple soprano ukuleles, and wanted to share a few photos from a couple days ago.
Also a photo of when I had a few of his instruments here at the house some years ago -

e

Hi Guys, A few progress photos from this evening - Thomas Macomson's batch of eight pineapple Sopranos

 

[Doc_J]

Thank you Ed. So wonderful to hear Thomas is building ukes again.
I was fortunate to have had two of his Makapili ukes. Both were skillfully & beautifully made with great tone.

The first really nice uke I owned was a concert pineapple Makapili!

 

[Ed Gilkison]

Hi Guys ! Thomas just finished one of the soprano pineapple ukulele's he has been working on,
and has put it on UU marketplace at $500 plus shipping, An amazing instrument . It has a mahogany body with a Port Orford Cedar neck.

 

[thomas]

Thanks for posting all the pictures Ed!

 

[BillM]

For those who are not familiar with Thomas' builds, here is Jake Wildwood's take on a Makapili Sinker Redwood Pineapple Tenor a few years ago. https://jakewildwood.blogspot.com/2016/04/2013-makapili-sinker-redwood-pineapple.html
IMHO Thomas builds beautiful ukes. I'm looking forward to seeing some concert ukes available in the future.