Moonlight Mango Concert

Now at Hale Ukulele, the Moonlight Mango Concert.  This really nifty set of Mango Wood was passed over by a potential client a couple of months ago and I immediately snatched it up for myself.  I didn’t even know that I had it until I dug it out of the Mango stacks.   I’m really glad that he wasn’t interested because I knew it would make a great looking concert ukulele.

There are a lot of colors and a little bit of curl in this wood.  The color is not atypical for Mango–moonlight greys with some subtle yellows and muted reds.

I decided to add an African Black Limba neck to the build and then accented all with some Asian Satin Wood Burl.  Abalone Purfling and Rosette, fuschia/black fiber accents, India Rosewood Binding  and Ebony finger board and bridge round out the build.

I used D’Addario Nyltech, high “G” on this instrument instead of my usual low “G” combinations.  This instrument has a standard concert scale, but in the future I’m going to build more concerts with tenor scales.  I was just adding strap buttons to a client’s tenor scale concert yesterday (mango and high “G” as well) and was impressed again with the bright sound of these smaller instruments with high “G” strings.

Moonlight Mango Concert!