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Custom Claro Walnut Baritone Ukulele

Custom Claro Walnut Baritone Ukulele - Sold

My kind of build is this Custom Claro Walnut Baritone Ukulele. Let The Woods Speak For Themselves Body:  highly figured Claro Walnut.  I've built a lot of claro walnut instruments over the years.  It's one of my favorite woods to work…
Curly Walnut Custom Ukulele

Curly Walnut Custom Ukulele - Sold

I love a Curly Walnut Custom Ukulele.  This is a super tenor size. It's All About The Woods Body:  curly Claro Walnut.  I've built quite a number of instruments using claro walnut and this is just another example of the variety and…
Claro Walnut Tenor Ukulele

Curly Claro Walnut Tenor Ukulele - Sold

I love this Curly Claro Walnut Tenor Ukulele.  This started out as an all Pacific Northwest build but that got slightly altered with the fret board and bridge--read on. It's All About The Wood Body:  California, curly claro walnut. …
Claro Walnut Tenor Ukulele

Claro Walnut Tenor Ukulele - Sold

NEXT:  Claro Walnut Tenor Ukulele.  This is a standard tenor. It's All About The Wood Back and Sides:  Curly, colorful California Claro Walnut.  This is just about as good as it gets in the Walnut catagory.  Claro walnut might be…
Another Big Baritone Ukulele

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. It's All About The Wood Body:  figured Claro Walnut with curly Koa backstrip. Sound Board:  Fort…
Three Amigos Super Tenor Ukulele

Three Amigos Super Tenor Ukulele - Custom Build-Sold

It's an inside joke.  Here's the Three Amigos Super Tenor Ukulele on it's way to the great state of Texas. The Woods See what you started Pat! The Soundboard is curly Port Orford Cedar.  This is stump salvage. The Back and…
port orford cedar and claro walnut ukulele

Port Orford Cedar and Claro Walnut Ukulele - Custom Build-Sold

Here's the latest instrument to leave the shop. This is a Port Orford Cedar and Claro Walnut Ukulele.  A custom Super Tenor shape. This project was proposed with the client researching and purchasing the woods for the ukulele.  After…
claro walnut baritone ukulele

Claro Walnut Baritone Ukulele

I just got back from a week off.  Before I left, I delivered this Claro Walnut Baritone Ukulele.  A few posts back you might have seen a claro walnut long neck concert ukulele which looked very similar. This instrument sports a Sinker…
alternative luthier tonewoods

Alternative Luthier Tonewoods, Just Because I can

I just put strings on this custom tenor ukulele last week.  This build was a bit of a materials experiment using a variety of Alternative Luthier Tonewoods.  This was not a custom order but I build these as shop instruments occasionally,…
alternative luthier tonewoods

New Black Walnut Concert

This concert ukulele is made from the following woods: back and sides--figured Claro Walnut; sound board--Canadian Red Cedar; neck--Oregon black walnut;  accents--Maidou burl.  The binding is East India Rosewood.  I also used an extended…