This is Walt’s Pale Moon Tenor Pineapple Ukulele. Walt selected pale Pomelle Bubinga for the back and sides and Swiss Moon Spruce for the sound board. The finger board and bridge are Mexican Ziricote. I love the look of this wood, especially these pieces. Alas, I am quite sensitive to the dust so this […]
This Pineapple Koa Tenor Ukulele at Hale Ukulele was delivered last year about the same time as the Christmas Koa Pineapple Ukulele. Even though this one got snatched up while I was making another delivery to Hale Ukulele, it still deserves a bit of air time. All Koa, Blue Abalone Purfling, India Rosewood binding, Amazon […]
My myrtle wood supplier in southern Oregon sent me some of his personal stash of curly myrtle and sinker redwood for his build. Here is a Sinker Redwood and Myrtle Tenor Ukulele. Sinker Redwood–you know, that stuff that’s been laying at the bottom of the river for who know’s how long–comes in a variety of […]
World traveler Donna saw the plumeria flowers on Zoey’s ukulele and had to have them on her’s as well. This is The Donna Tenor Ukulele. This set of Koa was personally picked by Donna for a standard tenor ukulele. This Koa may not be as curly as some, but it exhibits lots of chocolate colors […]
Last year I got my hands on some unusual woods: Swiss Moon Spruce and some Blonde Pomelle Bubinga. This is the Swiss Moon Spruce and Pomelle Bubinga Baritone Ukulele for Joseph. Here’s the link for the story on the Swiss Moon Spruce. Very interesting for sure and definitely worth a watch. In my opinion the […]
Happy New Year y’all! Here’s another ukulele from 2018 year end–a Tri-color Koa Baritone Ukulele. A few posts back I showed a super tenor made from wood cut from the same billet. That one didn’t last long at Hale Ukulele and this one didn’t either–a week maybe. The grain pattern is a bit different so […]
Thanks for everything and Mele Kalikimaka y’all! Hank
Someone will have a fun Christmas with The Zoey Custom Tenor Ukulele. This custom ukulele is a gift for Zoey from Santa. Santa visited the shop earlier this year and picked this set of Koa wood specifically for this gift. The addition of mother-of-pearl and paua abalone plumeria flowers was also by request and are […]
Another of my recent deliveries to Hale Ukulele in San Diego is this Christmas Koa Tenor Pineapple Ukulele. This Koa tenor pineapple ukulele exhibits what I call “tiger curl” . This type of curl occurs when the wood is cut off perpendicular to the flat surface. A bit more off the perpendicular and the curl […]
Hmmmm! Let me think about this. What do I build for myself? With all the beautiful Koa sets that I have you might think that Koa would be my first choice of wood. This time the Koa loses out to an Ancient Spruce and Ambrosia Maple Super Tenor Ukulele. There’s a story behind most of the […]
