This has become a keeper, The body is Palo Escrito, a Mexican Rosewood, The soundboard is Englemann Spruce. A marvelous combination of beauty and sound. I hope to get some more Palo Escrito from my friend Ricardo in Paracho.
Big Leaf Maple is rarely found with Quilt figure. A great pleasure to find a piece available for a uke.
TODAY I GOT A BRAND NEW ROUTER AND I AM HOPING MY COMPUTER WOES ARE OVER AND I WILL BE ABLE TO RESUME MY FREQUENT BLOGS. I HAVE BEEN TERRIBLY FRUSTRATED RECENTLY BY MY INABILITY TO POST UP PHOTOS AND COMPLETE A DECENT BLOG. LETS HOPE THIS IS A NEW ERA Well that worked. This is a shot of the sides being glued to the soundboard of a baritone, # 204 i think. Lets try another.
It's been a long time between blogs. I thought I was having computer problems but just found it was an ancient router that was failing. Just got a new one up and running and hopefully will be back posting pictures and telling you about computers every few days now. Here's a picture of my crazy workshop just to show you I am serious
Come to Whatcom Museums "Deck the Old City Hall" to see the beautiful Christmas Trees and enjoy the free concert by the Community Ukulele Players CUP. Sunday Dec. 11th at 1:00 PM
Cut the inlay groove with a router and oval guide with the unsanded top clamped down tight, paint the groove with dilute shellac to seal the grain. Next tap the rope inlay into the groove and fix it with thin superglue. Then start the sound hole with the drill press. Cut out the rough hole with a sharp blade. The dark stain is caused by the dilute shellac. It will disappear when finished. Now we are ready to perfect the oval sound hole on the sander And finally, the top is sanded to its final .90 thickness and it is ready for its tone bars. The sanded redwood soundboard will provide a warm rich sound and the French Polish treatment will make the dark spot disappear.
Marvelous Big Leaf Maple makes great ukes. this is a maple Baritone #201 being made for Mike. It has a bearclaw Sitka Spruce soundboard and is going to be a beauty. |
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