Hawaiian Concert Cutie Ukulele - Custom Build-Sold
This is the latest out of the shop, a Hawaiian Concert Cutie Ukulele–with an Icelandic flair.
Curly Koa and curly Koa.
The Woods
It is build with Koa. Koa, and more Koa.
Multi-colored curly koa body
It’s a long neck concert with a Tasmanian Blackwood neck. This blackwood is bit on the curly side; and, is it hard to shape–at least this particular stock. Much harder than Koa I believe.
Tasmanian blackwood neck.
We were looking for something a little different for the fret board and bridge, and Bloodwood filled the bill. I haven’t used bloodwood for many, many years but I really like the way it compliments this build. Actually, I haven’t seen much bloodwood for sale for a long time. This material is probably from Mexico since my local source is Tropical Hardwoods in Carlsbad and they feature a lot of wood from Central America. Most of their stock is dry, quarter sawn and has good red color. The color does not fade and the wood has a pleasing chatoyance that most of the other bridge materials lack.
The Accents
India Rosewood binding with red/black purfling accents.
A red/black purfling and India Rosewood go well with the bloodwood.
Icelandic Vegvisir laser cut head stock.
The specialty accent on the head stock is a laser cut Icelandic Vegvisir or Icelandic Compass. It is said you’ll never lose your way when you come across this visual aid.
Lotsa nice Koa curl Brah!
Lastly are Hi-G Strings. A new combo for me is Yo-Zuri Top Knot Leader material. The string diameters are smallish and about the same as the Worth Clear that I used 10 years ago. They are extremely bright, and I can possibly see a variety of combinations using this material in the future. The owner’s other uke is a Super Tenor with Romero Low-G’s which gives him good tonal variety in instruments.
Mi-Si amplification, Gotoh tuners and a nice blue Crossrock case finish the build.
A Hawaiian Concert Cutie Ukulele–with an Icelandic flair. Bestu kveojur!
