I have had a few requests for Ukes lately. Haven't built one for a couple or so years and I have only two. I was wondering, do you put any internal bracing in in addition to want is needed to attach the neck to the box? Has anyone attached a neck by cutting a dovetail type joint, like I see on some real ukuleles?
If so how did you cut it?
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I have used a dovetail joint recently. I built a jig to cut it and it worked out pretty well. You can see a similar jig in action here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-uILpnd9kw
Lutihiers Mercantile International sells templates and plans to build one.
Here are pictures of my dovetail:
That's what I'm talking about! Thanks
I just ordered the plans from LMI. Got to give this a try. Yours really looks nice.
Thanks! It was a pain to setup but I think ultimately it will make building easier.
Really a nice and clean join. I have the same fixture. Haven't tried the dovetail yet
Really nice!! I'm building 2 right now for my Granddaughter's. Love the Kokopelli sound hole. Very cool. I didn't know ole Koko played ukes! Just givin you a hard time about the "real ukes". They're all real ukes!!
This is one I just built for my grandson, he is 2. Loves the movie CARS and love to play with a uke at is day care. So I combined the two. He was really excited when I gave it to him. Carried it around for hours.
"Real ukes", that's funny! I'm just starting to use mortise and tenon for my "real" ukes but here is a pretty nice little blog article about using dovetail on ukes. http://ukulele-innovation.tripod.com/
Before the m&t I would glue and screw the neck in place using epoxy. I've never had any problems doing it this way.
The boxes I've used for cb ukes were kinda thick IMO so I never used bracing
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Ya, maybe "real ukes" was a bad choice of words. My son took my CB uke home to show to some friends that have and play "real ukes" . They actually liked mine better, for sound, looks and playing. That is why I have more to build. This is the one he took home.