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Quilt Maple Super Tenor Ukulele - Sold at Hale Ukulele
Currently for sale with hard case for $1575.
Tired of the same old Koa thing? Here's a new build that I'm pretty excited about. This is a Quilt Maple Super Tenor Ukulele. No stain, just natural--it's all about the wood!
Maple…
Carol’s Music Box Baritone Ukulele
Here's a recent project that was some time in the making--Carol's Music Box Baritone Ukulele. I know that Carol would love to have had an ukulele where every piece of wood was a different and exotic (I'm going to make one of those by the way)…
Myrtle and Walnut Tenor Ukulele - Sold/Hale Ukulele
This alternative wood ukulele is now at Hale Ukulele in San Diego. The Myrtle and Walnut Tenor Ukulele uses some of my favorite non-Hawaiian woods: Oregon Myrtle and Oregon Bastogne Walnut.
Myrtle is unique to southern…
Longneck Tamarind Concert Ukulele
This is a Longneck Tamarind Concert Ukulele (tenor scale). My client wanted lots of spalted Tamarind wood so not only did I make the back and sides out of this unusual wood, but the neck as well. It doesn't stop there though. For the top…
Redwood Walnut Long Neck Concert Ukulele
Here's a Redwood Walnut Long Neck Concert Ukulele delivered the week before last. An unusual combination of woods, by request, that worked better than I expected.
The most notable component of this instrument is a salvage "sinker"…
She’s a real cutie, a Mexican beauty. . . . .
I need to write Jimmy Buffett and give him these words--could be the making of a great song.
Here is a new instrument made from Mexican Palo Escrito (a genuine rosewood). This is one of those "off the grid" woods that hasn't been over…
More Black
I haven't been able to keep one of these instruments for too long. After the last sold, I started a new one and decided to keep it a little more conservative--meaning, no beetle holes. Here is that effort. Of course the body is solid Black…
Not Another Maple Ukulele!
I don't know, I just can't resist. I've had the opportunity to build some "shop" instruments and decided to do another maple/sitka combination. ALSO, the latest run of instruments have all been strung up with Jason Arimoto's PHD, low "G"…
More Myrtle, and….
Here's a new tenor with a combination of figured, "crotch" Oregon Myrtle for sound board and beeswing African Imbuia (huh!). I accented the instrument with Oregon curly Maple binding and black/white herringbone purfling and matching backstrip.…
Takayama Surf
This custom tenor ukulele was co-designed by pro surfer Guy Takayama (www.takayamasurf.com). The ukulele is a modified hula hips but with a slightly wider waist and a rounded lower bout. Instead of the usual center sound hole, Guy opted…