Another Chocolate Heart Mango Concert Ukulele
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.
A little bit of everything
To accent the instrument, we decided on a combination of white/black purfling and I thought a little Paua Abalone rosette would help with the Paua Abalone turtle inlay on the tongue of the fret board.
the back is the same as the top but with reversed bookmatch
New for me on this build was the brown Australian Mallee burl accents. The Fret board is ebony species and radiused per the clients request. In addition I installed a Mi-Si under saddle piezo pick-up. This latest version of Mi-Si is working really great.
really dark sides
The neck is Honduran Mahogany, the tuners are Gotoh UPT and the strings are Worth high “G” flourocarbon.
paua turtle inlay and paua rosette
This client has numerous ukulele but has never had one with a side sound port which prompted her comment “I’ve never heard myself sound so good. . .”. Guess that sound port really works!
