BELLINGHAM'S OLD CITY HALL, SUNDAY DEC. 11TH, 1:00 PM
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. The pickup installation revealed The pickup is seen at the bottom with the piezo cable taped into a loop and penetrating the bridge patch. The bronze colored band leads to the volume control wheels
SORRY it has been such a long time since I have posted a blog. A busy time, a significant birthday and some problems with uploading photos has slowed me down. This is a nice little concert with a Sycamore back and sides and Englemann Spruce soundboard. It will be taken to UPS for shipment to Bonnie in Texas in the morning. And this is the "Pocock", a special design baritone delivered to the owner of Pocock Boats today. It sounds great. The three chevrons represent the logo of the Pocock Boat Company, the maker of legendary racing shells in Seattle. The ukulele was built for the owner of the company and used Cedar, Ironbark and Alaska Yellow Cedar from the old company warehouse. Their racing shells are now made of fiberglass. There was fine, aged wood stored in the warehouse. And here is the maple back of the " Pocock". Turned out to be a very nice Bari
She ordered her concert a year ago and I finally got it done. Driving from Colorado to Bellingham to visit friends here she was able to pick it up. and while she was at it she also bought an available tenor. She is going home with a big uke load. This tiny microphone pointed out by the white tooth pick transmits the acoustic sound from inside the ukulele and adds an interesting and impressive sound to your amplified music. It is all quite amazing. You can even talk into the sound hole and hear yourself on your amplifier. This is the MiSi Trio Air ukulele and guitar pickup. It picks up sound also from the under saddle piezo. Each sound source is controlled by its individual volume wheel. Works like a charm.
This is the new MiSi Trio Air ukulele pickup, a marvellice creation. I recently installed one in my "Finn" tenor, I am extremely pleased. its features are as follows. *Its twin super capacitors power the pickup for eight hours of use and are charged in 60 seconds. *It contains a tiny microphone that transmits the audio sound from within the instrument. *It also transmits sound from the Piezo cable under the saddle. *Each method of sound transmission is controlled separately by its own volume wheel in the sound hole. *Volume controls range from off to loud. They can be played separately or blended together. *they come with a charger that is plugged into the house circuit and into the end of the pickup for only 60 secs. Can you identify the tiny microphone
I will point it out in tomorrow's blog She ordered it last September. Finished just in time for her trip to Bellingham from Colorado Quilt Big Leaf Maple body with an Englemann Spruce sound board. And Lila plays her new concert, already named "Feather"
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