Mango On Mango Custom Ukulele - Sold
Just hav’n some fun with this Mango On Mango Custom Ukulele. This is a super tenor.
Curly, colorful, splated mango.
It’s All About The Woods
Body: curly, colorful, spalted Hawaiian Mango. This mango is from the Big Island and Kamuela Hardwoods. I bought a bunch about 6-7 years ago and have slowly been working my way through the sets. Guess I can’t complain about the final look on this puppy.
Matching mango everywhere.
Neck: a lamination of Mango wood from Central America. Spalted as well and a perfect match for the body as it turns out. There’s a giant piece of carbon fiber embedded in the neck so I’m not worried about bend in the neck since these highly spalted woods are a touch on soft side. Finish is 100 percent epoxy and sanded butt smooth. Neck profiles are now thinner with less cheeks for even better handling.
Spalted mango neck.
Accent Woods: of course, more curly Mango.
Fret Board and Bridge: I didn’t have any stabilized mango for a fret board so I went for plan “B”–stabilized Satin Wood Burl. Just perfect. It’s radiused and the nut is 1 7/16″ wide.
The Rest Of The Build
Accents: green/black purfling and some thin Paua Abalone to match.
Curly mango binding with paua abalone purfling.
Tuners: Gotoh UPT.
A touch of Paua Abalone on the head stock face.
Strings: Pepe Romero, low “G”.
Too much mango?
Fret Board Markers: Paua Abalone.
Nut and Saddle: unbleached bone.
Case: Crossrock ABS.
And
To me, this one sounds smooth and creamy–just like a good mango. The double sound hole is definitely an Hawaiian thing that I first saw on Keola Beamer’s “Dream Guitar” made by Maui luthier Steve Grimes. Later it was used by Nahenahe Ukulele Maui. It’s a look, but also another method to bring sound to the player quicker like with the side sound port–just not quite as direct. In addition, moving the sound holes north frees up more active sound board. I’ve made these with a side port but think that is a bit overkill and I really don’t like the look. There’s a children’s book out there titled “Too Many Mango’s”. In my book you can never have enough mango’s especially with a Mango On Mango Custom Ukulele. Yummm!
