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TODAY I GOT A BRAND NEW ROUTER AND I AM HOPING MY COMPUTER WOES ARE OVER AND I WILL BE ABLE TO RESUME MY FREQUENT BLOGS. I HAVE BEEN TERRIBLY FRUSTRATED RECENTLY BY MY INABILITY TO POST UP PHOTOS AND COMPLETE A DECENT BLOG. LETS HOPE THIS IS A NEW ERA  Well that worked. This is a shot of the sides being glued to the soundboard of a baritone, # 204 i think. Lets try another.
It's been a long time between blogs. I thought I was having computer problems but just found it was an ancient router that was failing. Just got a new one up and running and hopefully will be back posting pictures and telling you about computers every few days now.  Here's a picture of my crazy workshop just to show you I am serious
BELLINGHAM'S OLD CITY HALL, SUNDAY DEC. 11TH, 1:00 PM   Come to Whatcom Museums "Deck the Old City Hall" to see the beautiful Christmas Trees and enjoy the free concert by the Community Ukulele Players CUP. Sunday Dec. 11th at 1:00 PM
Cut the inlay groove with a router and oval guide with the unsanded top clamped down tight, paint the groove with dilute shellac to seal the grain.  Next tap the rope inlay into the groove and fix it with thin superglue. Then start the sound hole with the drill press.  Cut out the rough hole with a sharp blade. The dark stain is caused by the dilute shellac. It will disappear when finished.  Now we are ready to perfect the oval sound hole on the sander  And finally, the top is sanded to its final .90 thickness and it is ready for its tone bars.  The sanded redwood soundboard will provide a warm rich sound and the French Polish treatment will make the dark spot disappear.
Marvelous Big Leaf Maple makes great ukes.  this is a maple Baritone #201 being made for Mike. It has a bearclaw Sitka Spruce soundboard and is going to be a beauty.  The pickup installation revealed  The pickup is seen at the bottom with the piezo cable taped into a loop and penetrating the bridge patch. The bronze colored band leads to the volume control wheels
SORRY it has been such a long time since I have posted a blog. A busy time, a significant birthday and some problems with uploading photos has slowed me down.  This is a nice little concert with a Sycamore back and sides and Englemann Spruce soundboard. It will be taken to UPS for shipment to Bonnie in Texas in the morning.  And this is the "Pocock", a special design baritone delivered to the owner of Pocock Boats today. It sounds great.  The three chevrons represent the logo of the Pocock Boat Company, the maker of legendary racing shells in Seattle. The ukulele was built for the owner of the company and used Cedar, Ironbark and Alaska Yellow Cedar from the old company warehouse. Their racing shells are now made of fiberglass. There was fine, aged wood stored in the warehouse.  And here is the maple back of the " Pocock". Turned out to be a very nice Bari
She ordered her concert a year ago and I finally got it done. Driving from Colorado to Bellingham to visit friends here she was able to pick it up.  and while she was at it she also bought an available tenor. She is going home with a big uke load. |
