Griffin Ukuleles
  • Home
  • About
  • Woods
  • Available Instruments
  • Construction
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • testimonials
  • Ukulele Stuff
  • Untitled

FLYING HIGH!

8/3/2014

0 Comments

 
I WOULD NOT WANT YOU to think that the life of an aging luthier has no adventure or excitement.  Yesterday I enjoyed a flight around our local volcano Mt. Baker.  I was the guest of my friend Patrick Donovan the owner of a 1937 Lockheed Electra.  We recreated the flight around this great mountain that his grandfather had first done 1929.  It was a perfect day, the mountain was magnificent. This picture was taken at 10,000 feet.
Picture
Back on the ground and in the workshop I spent the morning refining the edges of the back on the Uke Bass.  
Then I routed a place for and installed a rosewood "nut" for the "end gut" to come over the back of the instrument.
Picture
Now up to the living room for the evening planning session the Uke Bass leans against a chair.  Next I will carve and install a bone nut and then comes the job of making a tall bridge of Maple, and  a connecting piece of wood between the end gut and the strings.  That done I will be ready to string it up and see what I have created, a Frankenstein or a Strad.  I would be very happy with something in between those two extremes.
Picture
Picture
0 Comments



Leave a Reply.

Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.