I just love these instruments made from mango wood. Here is a new delivery to Hale Ukulele–the Mango and Pineapple Tenor Ukulele. The wood is nice and curly but I really love the golds offset with the blacks in this particular set of mango. Low density Mango really responds well to nylon string low tension […]
Here’s a an example of what I have been making a lot of this year. There have been a more requests for conventional tonewood sound boards. This is the super tenor Super Bearclaw and Koa Tenor Ukulele. If you follow my posts you know that I favor any wood that isn’t quite normal looking–I’d like […]
Here’s a New All Koa Super Tenor Ukulele that I just delivered to Hale Ukulele Saturday. If you like Koa ukes then I think you will like this one a lot. It feels good, looks good and sounds good. This particular set of koa exhibits warm chocolate colors and multiple figures of curl, quilt and […]
One of my favorite ukulele woods is Black Walnut. This particular set of wood is from Oregon and is a variation or hybrid of the standard. This variation is a lower density wood than Claro Walnut. For a sound board, I have paired the black walnut with a blond, curly Oregon Myrtle. This is the […]
Just out the door is this Koa Super Tenor Ukulele. This instrument is one of the first that I have constructed using my super tenor shape. The shape is reminiscent of the guitar “J” models with a rounded lower bout. I added another 1/8″ to the depth of the body which now measures 3 1/4″ […]
No fancy names this time. Here is a new Spalted Koa Baritone Ukulele going out this week. This instrument is made from the same billet of koa that the San Franciso Dream Ukulele is made from. It’s the big brother. Besides the size and tuning differences, I made a triple-ply stringer for the domestic black […]
This was always referred to as the San Francisco Dream Ukulele, but I like to call it the Tree of Gondor ukulele. There isn’t anything on this ukulele that would remind one of San Francisco. Maybe Alcatraz or the San Francisco Bay Bridge on the head stock would have been appropriate! This is a […]
Here’s the third and the last of the latest series of tenor ukuleles delivered last month. This is The Corky Tenor Ukulele. Each set of Koa wood used for these instruments exhibits a unique appearance. I try my best not to duplicate the sets just so that each instrument is a one-of-a-kind. The girls had a […]
Here’s the second in the trio of tenor ukuleles delivered recently. This is The Kitty Tenor Ukulele. The woods for each instrument were personally selected. This is a nice dark, curly koa selection that I have used before. Koa just keeps on giving with such a huge variety of colors and grains. Wait until I […]
This is the first of three standard tenor ukuleles recently delivered. I’m calling this one The Roberta Tenor Ukulele. This set of Koa wood is the second to last from 4 sets that I received from Allied Lutherie about 4 years ago. This is salvage stump wood from the Big Island of Hawaii. Colorfull, curly, […]
