Elegant Pineapple Ukulele - Custom Build-Sold
This Elegant Pineapple Ukulele left the shop yesterday.
Dark and Sultry.
It’s All About the Wood
Body: Curly Claro Walnut.
Mmmm! Yummy, curly Claro Walnut.
Sound Board: Ancient Sitka Spruce with Tahitian Black MOP purfling. Waste not, want not–or so they say. I have this one last offcut of ancient spruce destined for either a pineapple or a concert. I think it works pretty well with the claro. Dark and sultry.
Ancient spruce has a certain “glow”.
Neck: Curly Claro Walnut with internal carbon truss rod.
Claro Walnut neck.
Binding: Super Curly or Frogshair Curl Claro Walnut with black/maple purfling. I think going Claro all the way was a definite call with this build. I added binding to the neck as well which I don’t normally do.
Curly Claro Walnut binding.
Accent Woods: a combination of Brown and Red Australian Mallee Burl. Definitely like my burl accents.
Brown Australian Mallee burl.
Finger Board and Bridge: Ebony species.
The Rest of the Build
Case: Ohana.
Strings: Yozura topknot, high “G” by request.
Amplification: Mi-Si.
Tuners: Gotoh UPT.
Nut and Saddle: vintage bone. Actually this is unbleached bone that I have stained brown. It brings out all the imperfections in the bone and gives it a vintage look. Anything but white!
Fret Board Markers: white MOP.
And
I must say that I am not used to high “G” tuning anymore. There was a time that I thought that I would never use low “G” but that sure changed. Now I don’t want to use high “G” at all. And why you ask? I’ve gotten used to that few extra notes from the “G” string and I like the warmth that the low “G” gives to the instrument. Not knock’n-just say’n. So, I find this instrument to be clean, clear and bright with that classic ukulele sound. It can be strummed or finger-style played soft or hard. It doesn’t have the humorous look that I so often use with the pineapples and that’s why I call it the Elegant Pineapple Ukulele.
