Gender
Male
Location
Shifnal, Shropshire
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…
Read more…All, 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…
Read more…Hi all, 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…
Read more…Hi all, 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…
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