Another Big Baritone Ukulele - Custom Build-Sold
Here’s Another Big Baritone Ukulele. This is one elegant lady! This is going to be the year of the baritone in my shop for sure.
Old timey look.
It’s All About The Wood
Body: figured Claro Walnut with curly Koa backstrip.
Figured Claro Walnut body.
Sound Board: Fort Ross Redwood–old, old, old. And, a great story wood as well.
Binding: curly Hawaiian Koa with black/maple purfling accents.
Curly Hawaiian Koa binding.
Accent Woods: a mixture of Claro Walnut woods including some burl.
Claro Walnut accents all the way.
Neck: Honduran Mahogany with carbon truss rod. Sanded finish.
Fret Board and Bridge: western African Ebony species. 21″ scale with 15 frets to the body and radiused.
The Rest Of The Build
Tuners: Gotoh 501 super mini-ukulele in cosmo black and black vintage tuners. You can have your Schaller’s and Waverly’s, this is one of the finest tuners in the market. They are freak’n buttery smooth. These tuners will be a standard on my bari’s from now on (providing I can get them) and also on some tenors. I’m not knocking my standard Gotoh UPT though as they are still my fave uke tuner.
Gotoh 501 super mini ukulele tuners.
Fret Markers: White MOP.
MOP fret markers offset.
Strings: Oasis Baritone linear with wound D/G.
Nut and Saddle: stained unbleached bone.
Case: Crossrock ABS.
And
I love, love, love the sound of these instruments. I need one for myself but I only have one mold and it’s been busy most of the year. These instruments have almost a full sized tenor guitar sound–only with nylon strings. This will now be my standard baritone shape and size so I think I’ll just throw my old and smaller standard baritone mold away. It also just barely squeezes into a Crossrock baritone case–aaargh! Any bigger then I’d have to have a custom or maybe small guitar case. Just Another Big Baritone Ukulele ? I’ll let you make the final decision.
