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 nec
Read more…I just wanted to draw attention to a great tool I purchased last week. I bought it from Stewart McDonald at www.stewmac.com. It's a Precision Router Base to be used with a Dremel or Foredom type rotary tool. I've been using it to carve a sound hol
Read more…I was just thinking about what famous guitars players got their start by learning to play the ukulele before the guitar.
Here are the names that came to mind:
Jimi Hendrix,
Neil Young
Dick Dale
Johnny Winter
Let me know if you can think of others.
Read more…I'm working on my plans for my first cigar box uke (a soprano) and I ran across bloodwood as a fretboard option. I could only find one example of it being used for a uke, and that was on the body. I gather that it is usually used for fretless basses.
Read more…I want to build either a concert or tenor uke. Tenor I am thinking. So, I have built several 3 string cbg, and happy with it, and learning to play. So as a new player, i like the extra space, I have been happy with the 3 string spacing of .5 inch apa
Read more…Hey all! Been playing ukulele for a few months now, and I decided that I have to build a cigar box uke!
Going to start with this box:
And, for the neck, I found Rogue Soprano Ukuleles on sale at Musician's Friend for only $22... That's cheaper
Read more…Morning guys,Have anyone no of any slide tutaoials for the ukulele,there are plenty of guys playing slide on you tube but none as i can see showing you how to,help.Mal (UK)
Read more…Hi guysDue to my health I am unable to make my own cigar box intrerment,I have recenly bough a couple of factory made ukes that are great but having big hands the neck arn't wide enogh.Being unable to aford a custom job I recall a ukulele maker once
Read more…I been build my cbu with the neck running all the wat though the box....But now I want to add a bolt on neck....My question is what the best way to add the bridge to the box?
Read more…Hi guys Areally good friend of mine made for me this really great resonator uke,which I am delited with. It's a great guy called Shane Wagstaff from of here ,I've been meaning to post it on here for some time but what with my wife and son both been i
Read more…How do you determined the angle on the bridge?.... Is there a rule or rules?
Read more…Before building one I had never even playe a tenor ukulele before but as a guitarist realised I could use some of my chord shapes so it wouldn't feel like starting from scratch! What I wasn't aware of was how adictive ukulele would be and how much it
Read more…Hi guy, you help is needed again.I have aquired another red dot cohiba box measuring 12"x7 1/2"x1 3/4" would you guys think this would be deep enough to make a resso with it.I shall mostly playing it acusticly but fitted with double pezio's encased
Read more…For my next uke build, I plan on doing a bolt on neck (which I plan on ordering from Mainland Ukes, they do a good job at a great price) Anyway, if I bolt on the neck, I am a little concerned the neck will turn on the body, if that makes sense. Any w
Read more…I recentlY decided I would like a anther reso cb uke and then changed my mind and decided on a 22"cbg.A friend of mine cut and shape the neck for me and another guy of the nation offered to put it together for me,who I can't thank enough.I recently
Read more…I am thin king of making a resso uke with republic type cone and cover plate,do I need to make a special box for this as I have read that it's not the box that vibrates it's the cone plus I have a great rod piezo with preamp,where is the best place t
Read more…Im sure this has been discussed ad nauseam, but I had a question about scale length. It's my understanding the soprano is 13" and the concerto? is around 15". At the 12th fret that's 6.5" and 7.5" respectively.looking at the build here, most look to
Read more…This one is commission from a man I know out in San Diego. He wanted a surf theme.
It is an Ashton Chruchill box with a red oak neck. The finger board is rock maple with a coco bolo rosewood strip in the middle. Bone nut and saddle with rod piezo
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