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THE LAST CUSTOM!

10/15/2013

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Yesterday I told you I was through making custom ukes but had two to finish.  Today I heard from one of those clients who had just changed his mind and decided to change from a cedar top to a top of the redwood that I had salvaged from a friends bathroom remodel.  Well, that demonstrates the complexities of dealing with Custom customers, but in this case I am delighted because I have never made a redwood topped uke, and this is beautiful wood.  I am excited to make the change even though I had already made the cedar top and installed the rosette in it.  There will be another tenor soon that needs that cedar top.  I guess it is the Yin and Yang of building ukes,  anyhow here is the redwood I have chosen.  It will be a two piece bookmatched top.  The wood is perfectly quarter sawn,  incredibly fine grain in the center widening a bit at the edges.  There is a little bit of color change which should make for an interesting visual effect.  It has a tap tone with a high ring.  I think this will be a fine sounding uke when that high ring is tempered by the warm tones of the Koa sides and back.  This will be a fun uke to build,  Here is a picture of the selected redwood and the spalted maple rosette that I recently made.  Sure glad I made four of them.  
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dcd
10/15/2013 08:38:17 pm

Brian I can say you are resilient. I sure enjoy looking at your blog. I'm thinking about that cedar top. I expect it would make a warm sounding uke.

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