It began in the workshop carving out the peg head shapes with a fine rasp.
Rasp that edge until the black is gone. Now it is the proper shape.
Now turn it over and do the other side.
All that excess wood and dried glue gets cut away.
Until it looks like this.!
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Then it is time to glue in thin strips of hardwood that separate the peghead plate from the nut. Here they are wedged in while the glue dries.
NOW IT IS TIME TO PLAY
NOW IT IS TIME TO PLAY
So I was off to Gail's studio for the bi-monthly practice of the Bellingham Ukulele Group Community Players. Our leader, Linda Henderson looks a little somber here but she was really in a happy mood.
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We had a grand afternoon playing through our song list and by the time I got back home, the glue had dried and these ukes were getting pretty close to french polish time.
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The final shaping of the necks is all that is left before the last sanding, and the finishing process begins.