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5/3/2012

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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"
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