The Woodshop Shed

Koa tenor ukulele

Furnished content.
(from Lumberjocks.com)


Lots went wrong but I was using hide glue and was able to re-do an number of steps, including re-setting the neck. It turned out to sound great and was made for a friend, who won't notice the issues with the final finish. I'd made a walnut soprano previously, so had a basic idea of the process but hadn't tried purfling, binding, a side sound hole, bound keyboard, side dots, inlay, bridge pins, and a few other things, so it was a great learning process.The body is koa and the fretboard and bridge are Osage orange, which has darkened a lot more over the past year.I bought a thickness calliper from Lee Valley, a bending iron from Stewmac and a gramil to score the channels for the binding. It was hand planes, saws and chisels other than that. Very do-able as an apartment project.

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