Uke 1

I bought a "cigar box" at a craft store and used a rub on transfer paper for the design. The finger board is oak and neck is poplar both purchased a my local Lowes. I used shellac for the finish as it dries really fast and I am very impatient.
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  • The boxes for my first three ukes are all the same and the material is pretty thin.

  • Jillian, that's kind of interesting. I would have expected a noticeable difference, but never tried converting a through neck to a bolt on.
  • Jillian.... what about the top? Maybe the material is too thick...... maybe it's tone deaf..... yeah maybe it's tone deaf wood..... maybe the string things are nervous or something like that. I hope this helps, I like the sound holes as they are.

  • Thanks Chuck.  After the success with two more, I rebuilt this one.  It had through neck but now it is bolted one.  It did not change the tone as much as I thought it would.  This suggests to me that the sound holes have more to do with it.

  • Great job! Really different, I like it.
  • Outstanding work on that one man, really nice.

  • Wow,  looked good then saw the sound holes and upped it to great.  Short scale..

  • Corbie,

    Thanks so much.  They were a pain to cut as I don't have the right tools.  I drilled some holes to start them and tried my dremel but it just started to walk all over the place.  Then I switched to an exacto knife.  Long, hard work but in the end it, I got what I wanted (mostly)..

  • Jillian..... I just love the sound holes around the Sun. Nice work. At least you got a finish on it..... I'm satisfied with out so I can play them. ( I'll work on this )

  • Thanks!

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