Here’s another chocolate heart concert mango ukulele. It doesn’t look like it, but the top, back and sides actually came from the same piece of mango. I decided to mix it up a bit so that all the different looks of this wood are available on one instrument. To accent the instrument, we decided […]
I’m really behind in my posts, but here is the mate to the Blond Curly Koa Ukulele that I posted last. This is a blond koa blue paua abalone concert ukulele, and, I believe, is still availabile at Hale Ukulele in San Diego. The Koa selection is the same. What is different, besides the size, […]
One of my latest deliveries to Hale Ukulele is this Blond Curly Koa Tenor Ukulele. Actually, I delivered two blond curly koa ukuleles but one was a concert which I will post next week. Both instruments were accented the same but I reversed the blue/black fiber lay-up on the instruments to give a different […]
I don’t get many requests for Baritone Ukulele and when I do they usually come in multiples. This new Koa Baritone Ukulele 2017 was a shop request for Hale Ukulele. Ric has been getting more and more requests for Baritone Ukulele for the past year and he’s been pressing me for some time to get […]
Here’s a new Makau Koa Tenor Ukulele just delivered before a short summer break. A local ukulele artist wanted Koa, Blue Paua Abalone purfling and rosette along with an Abalone Turtle and White Mother-of-pearl Makau on the fret board–check, check and double check. I used a combination of compression curl Koa from Kauai and Curly Koa from the […]
This instrument I’ve named the Starflower Inlay Koa Tenor Ukulele because of the cool starflower inlay on the headstock. The inlay is of mother-of-pearl and paua abalone. This tenor ukulele is constructed of a very dark, solid Koa with some burnt orange undertones. I think this is a one-of-a-kind set of wood. I added […]
Here’s another of my “mix and match” ukulele. This Koa and Myrtle Wood Combo Tenor Ukulele turned out pretty nice. I could have used Sitka or Cedar for the top but most of my clients prefer hard wood instruments. I was dying to use this orphan Koa Wood top on something. Althougth it is not […]
This is one of the last of a series of pineapple ukulele that I have made for Hale Ukulele in San Diego–at least for the present. I just delivered this instrument today. Because of the beautiful Paua Moon inlay on the head stock, I’m calling this one the Paua Moon Tenor Pineapple Ukulele. I mated a […]
I’m still getting pineapple ukulele requests. Must be something in the air! This is Linda’s Lotus Blossom Tenor Mango Pineapple Ukulele. Linda is a collector, player and composer from back East and I am pleased that she asked me to build a pineapple ukulele to add to her very eclectic collection of custom instruments. […]
I always have some broken sets of wood that can be difficult to use. And, I just received this cool little Killer Whale inlay but wasn’t sure what to do with it. The Killer Whale Koa Tenor Ukulele became the answer. The koa sides are from Kauai. The koa back is from the Big Island […]
