Hi there!
This is the latest in a series of home-built instruments - all based on the theme of re-cycling dead 'folk' guitars.
A colleague donated a particularly nasty IKEA guitar, that was beyond all redemption. So I ripped the front and back off it
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It's been a couple of years since I built my own tambourine-based banjolele.
Since then I've fended off several requests to build copies for others, but I few weeks ago I caved in and took on two commissions from uke club members.
I thought I'd
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I've made a couple of ukes in the recent past, using bodies made from cut-down folk guitars, and very successful they are too!
Well, another old folk guitar turned up, and being past redemption, I thought I'd have a bash at making a mini reso
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I thought I'd post a few pics of my banjo uke that I built last year, using a cheap (£12) tambourine from Amazon, an idigbo neck, and hardware from Ebay.
'Loud' is the best word to describe it. I'm in a couple of local uke groups, and this i
Read more…Apologies for not posting very often, so I hope you don't mind me sharing the latest aberration from my workbench.
Starting with a cheap (£22 tenor uke kit, together with a 6" aluminium resonator (also Ebay), I've combined the two - together with a d
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I was recently given a broken 12-string acoustic guitar, and I was really taken by the 'distressed' look of the decades-old lacquer. I already have an ordinary 12-string, so I didn't need another.
Figuring the wreck had been left in a damp p
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I've not posted a build here before, so bear with me if I get it wrong, ok?
This is the second uke that that I've constructed out of an old acoustic guitar, that used to belong to my brother. (It was awful - the neck was twisted and bowe
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