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BUSKING IS A TOUGH RACKET!

4/18/2016

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WELL, I guess I was busking.  I got invited to do a book signing at a book store in LaConner.  The idea was that the passerby's would stop and chat and buy a book which I would then sign.  I brought along my ukulele, suspecting my three hour stint might be a little slow.   It was!,  lots of folks passed by,  Only one bought a book, maybe I should have put my open instrument case on the ground in front of me salted with a few dollar bills.

Oh well, it was a lovely sunny day and I got a little practice in.

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Next day, back in the workshop I got to work on the end strip, the last of the binding project.  First I cut away the white from the purfling.  Then stripping the white from a left over piece of binding, I fitted and glued it to the edges of the cut.  Then I carefully fitted a spare piece of koa from my scrap box.  The koa most closely resembled the Australian Blackwood of the binding.
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Once I got that fitted the piece was glued in, and then in a couple of hours it was ready to plane down and sand to fit flush to the back.  Opp's, I see I took this picture of a different uke.   This one needs a little tweaking here and there and quite a bit more sanding, but you get the idea.
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Bruce
4/19/2016 07:09:36 am

Beautiful.

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