May 3rd. 2012
I have three new tenors in production and took some photos of them today for your enjoyment. The backs and sides on each is Koa. I recently completed my first Koa with cedar soundboard uke and just love it. It has become my go-to uke and I don't think i want to sell it, but I had a bit more Koa, just enough for three sides and some pretty backs. As an experiment I am building two of them with cedar tops, I know they will sound great. The third uke has an Engelmann Spruce top. I am curious to hear the diference. Because the spruce is so white I chose to use an Alaska Cedar neck, the first that i have made of this great wood. It is not cedar at all but a member of the cypress family, closely related to Port Orford Cedar, another misnamed wood. Alaska Cedar is famously stable and with a huge strength to weight ratio. It is almost the same color as the spruce and I have matched it with a light piece of Honduran Rosewood for the fretboard. It is looking very pretty, I am calling it the "blonde"
I have three new tenors in production and took some photos of them today for your enjoyment. The backs and sides on each is Koa. I recently completed my first Koa with cedar soundboard uke and just love it. It has become my go-to uke and I don't think i want to sell it, but I had a bit more Koa, just enough for three sides and some pretty backs. As an experiment I am building two of them with cedar tops, I know they will sound great. The third uke has an Engelmann Spruce top. I am curious to hear the diference. Because the spruce is so white I chose to use an Alaska Cedar neck, the first that i have made of this great wood. It is not cedar at all but a member of the cypress family, closely related to Port Orford Cedar, another misnamed wood. Alaska Cedar is famously stable and with a huge strength to weight ratio. It is almost the same color as the spruce and I have matched it with a light piece of Honduran Rosewood for the fretboard. It is looking very pretty, I am calling it the "blonde"
