This was a good and fun day. Got a little done in the workshop making a new saddle for one of the last pinecones. The original was a hair to low allowing the resonance from the A string to dull the sound on the second fret. By making the saddle a bit higher the problem was solved.
This is a nice piece of buffalo bone thinned down to proper width. Now the challenge is to saw it between the lines to hopefully get two pieces the are wider. Hopefully with the jeweler's saw I can do this
Looks like it is going ok. These tiny saw blades allow you to saw a very fine line. and very accurately.
It worked out sell. The wider saddle solved the problem and the ukulele is finished.
It worked out sell. The wider saddle solved the problem and the ukulele is finished.
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Then this afternoon the Bellingham Ukulele Group Community Players Group went to a nursing home to play an hour's concert. I took along my big old two string bass and had a lot of fun as always entertaining these elderly folks.
We had twelve players and maybe twice that number in the audience. This is a valued thing to do for those of us that do it. Always leaves us with a good feeling.