Ambrosia Maple Custom Ukulele - For Sale--$1575
Here is a new Ambrosia Maple Custom Ukulele. This is a super tenor.
Cedar and Ambrosia Maple.
It’s All About The Woods
Body: Eastern, curly Ambrosia Maple. Well, it’s curly for sure. The colors come with one caveat–beetle holes. Gotta’ have’m or no drippy fun colors and patterns. I didn’t try to hide them either, so I filled them with black epoxy.
Eastern, curly, Ambrosia Maple body.
Sound Board: Western Red Cedar. This was more of a color choice which is close to this maple. Cedar gives a big and warm sound and it doesn’t disappoint on top on this puppy.
Binding: curly, burly Big Leaf Maple from the PNW. Purfling is purple/maple. The purple finishes dark and is almost black.
Curly, Ambrosia Maple neck with figured maple back strap.
Neck: a compound neck of curly Ambrosia Maple. Carbon truss rod and a sanded butt smooth epoxy finish. MOP dots at 7/12 on top and black for all locations on the side.
Fret Board and Bridge: here is some brownish Munn Ebony. Radiused.
Art shot–curl and curl.
The Rest Of The Build
Rosette: purple synthetic Opal. A subtle glitz.
Purple synthetic opal rosette.
Nut and Saddle: unbleached Bone.
Tuners: Gotoh UPT.
Gotoh UPT in curly ambrosia maple.
Strings: Pepe Romero, low “G”.
Case: Crossrock wood, gold Tweed. New case for this size instrument which fits it perfectly and is ultra-cushy.
And
It’s been a slow summer in the shop and I’ve only started to get back on-line. This is the second instrument since June I think. Whew!
I’m all over this curl. Haven’t done one in awhile and had to add the ambrosia neck as well. You can never have enough curl? The sound came out just as expected with big warm notes that seem to be well balanced between the bass and treble. You know, most of these instruments seem to sound this way with subtle changes maybe with a more focused/reflective rosewood body. No complaints though. When you gotta’ have curl and color there’s nothing like an Ambrosia Maple Custom Ukulele.
