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It is rose season and a new tenor has also blossomed  This uke has a pretty Koa body, Western red Cedar soundboard and an Ironbark fretboard and bridge. With its Mahogany neck and and gold hued tuners this is a handsome instrument.  The tuners are the excellent Gotah UPTs on a European Birch head plate  This beauty is available for sale, comes with a sturdy Crossrock case. Give me a call 360 303 2418
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 This brand new beauty has a rich baritone voice thanks to its classic maple body and the sonic graded Lutz Spruce soundboard. The neck is Mahogany and the fretboard is matching Ironbark from the old Pocock racing shell warehouse.  Marvelous Big Leaf Maple from the forests of Washington State  Gotah UPT geared tuners are proven winners  Notice the Medullary rays indicating an exceptional soundboard. The UkeLogic strings help this Bari sing.
Paul posts a weekly song on his web site and happily he frequently plays his Griffin tenor.  Here he is trying out a recently finished tenor. He liked it, it is available, East Indian Rosewood body and Redwood soundboard. Same woods as his Griffin.
 Our local Big Leaf Maple makes magnificent instruments. This Bari will have a Sonic Graded Lutz Spruce soundboard and I expect it to sound great. Note the complex Kasha tone bar design. The entire top vibrates.  The back gets braces of vertical grained Sitka Spruce
tone bar locations are shown on the Lutz Spruce sound board  And the spruce tone bars are cut to length and ready to be whittled into shape  notice their fine grain all set vertically
 Strings attached to the bridge tend to tear it from the sound board. The "thru bridge" method avoids repairs like this.
 THIS IS A PRETTY ONE, SONIC GRADED LUTZ SPRUCE AND PALO ESCRITO DIRECTLY FROM PARACHO, MEXICO  AND YOU NEED A BARITONE, THIS IS A DANDY   Beautiful Rosewood back and sides and a sonic tested Lutz Spruce soundboard produce a sound that is marvelous.
Two male mason bees have just exited the boxes into the warm sun. They have spent the winter hibernating in the refrigerator. They will be followed in a few days by the females and together the spring pollination will begin. If you want to raise these wonderful pollinators read my book "The Orchard Mason Bee", available on Amazon 
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